Monday, November 29, 2010

Are you an ordinary or an extra-ordinary??

This post is about the scale with which the workers are measured in corporate industry. Employers today are finding good workers. The difference between skills required on the job and those possessed by applicants is called as 'Skills-Gap'.  

I read this interesting story in some Kannada article. 

            One HR manager of a leading hotel in India used to recruit the final semester students of many hotel management collages. He intakes 100 such people every year and puts them into the 6 months of training under his hotel's premises. Everyone gets the stipend of 3000/- per month.

            But among these trained candidates, only 25 are given the job every year! Rest get the 'training completion certificate' and they are let free to find job in any other hotel. The certificate taken from this hotel validates them to get hired in any other. Fact is that the 25 people, hired here, get 25,000/- per month & have promotional offers too. Others, hired elsewhere, get only around 10,000/- per month!

            After observing this, one VIP (friend of the manager) questioned him "Is this the game playing with their lucks? As per me, those 25 are the luckiest persons and other 75 are unfortunates. How do you do this? If everyone are equally trained, everyone should win. Can you clarify me?"

            "This is not because of their luck factor," manager replied, "In these 6 months our trainers sensitively  observe their attitude. They finally divide them into ordinary and extraordinary trainees. We hire the extraordinary ones and send out the others with a certificate."

When he was asked on what basis they divide them into these two categories, he showed this:

Extraordinaries:
1. Find new ways to do the given work.
2. Say "I am ready to this work" anytime.
3. Look for opportunity in every problem.
4. Show self confidence always.
5. Sketch to finish the task as soon.

Ordinaries:
1. Find new reasons to escape from given work.
2. Say "I am not trained in this kind of work" anytime.
3. Look for problem in every opportunity.
4. Show doubt always.
5. Sketch to run away from the task as soon.

Think on it!!
They are such optimistic that we can decide "To which category we belong??" 

1 comment:

  1. Good Say...

    Little 'Extra' makes 'Ordinary' to 'Extra-Ordinary'.

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