“Welcome to this edition of” My employee has an incredible talent “! This show is presented to you by our Chief Talent Officer [sort of HRD with talented sauce] and his nugget hunters.” Freshly recruited, a battalion of Young graduates chains performance: Sabrina, asleep on a chair, suddenly wakes up and practices automatic writing. She is therefore able to work at night, without doing it on purpose. Interesting.
For his part, Martin spits fire on a thread while juggling with staplers, with spectacular music in the background, while Bruno has molecular cooking brilliantly. The performers of the day, although they are actually maintenance technicians, computer scientists or commercial, have been recruited for their “Mad Skills”, literally their crazy skills (or “patient talents”).
The expression is inspired by an essential terminology in recruitment, and which normally cuts the CV of a candidate in two: on the one hand are the “hard skills”, hard skills, observable by diplomas or Certifications, and on the other the “soft skills”, behavioral skills supposed to decline the personality of the worker in business (autonomy, creativity, kindness, etc.).
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The “Mad Skills” also relate to personality. It is not a question of going to pick up your “patient talents” in asylum, but to highlight the atypical profiles, having lived extraordinary experiences. Will notably be appreciated the construction of a school in Kenya with three pieces of wood and a tube of glue, the high level practice of curling on lawn, or this sabbatical year devoted to self -absorption life in a lost cabin in the Amazonian forest .
Concretely, it is a question of giving a role other than cosmetic to the “leisure and travel” box of the CV, and to convert your whole life into the professional sphere. It is even clearly advised on many employment sites, up to that of Pôle Emploi .
The big thinkers of Silicon Valley, who have given birth to the “Mad Skills” (the term has developed in France in the past three years), go further: it is not trivial to see tickets ‘HR influencers highlight the experience of mourning or illness, as proof of “resilience”.
out of the frame but not too much
Be careful, this must only have good for the company: the social psychologist Serge Moscovici speaks of “positive deviance” to designate innovative intuitions, who came from people who think differently. A boon for managers in search of “force of proposal” employees.
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