Recruitment lessons took from… dancing classes

Two years ago, I’ve started to take dancing classes. Besides a certain routine, dancing thought me some lessons. Some of them can apply on recruitment as well. Here are some of them:

• Listen to the music: dancing is not just a couple of moves, it’s more about the music, the beat, and how you follow. It’s similar on recruitment: you have to listen to what the market ”sings”. What kind of skills are most needed or what kind of benefits candidates are looking for?
• Be a follower: in a dancing couple, the man decides the moves and the girl follows him. It’s the same on recruitment: the candidate decides what move he wants to do. The recruiter has to follow his signs and to guide to a certain job.
• Capacity to interact with very different type of profiles. Different dancers or candidates, you have to be as professional you can.
• The happiest people in the world are the ones who mix their passions with their jobs.
• In each domain, it helps you to assess your development and to set up a new goal.
• It doesn’t matter the domain because whatever you do if you want to be good you have to train and to study each moment.
• It’s good to make a fusion: learn different dancing styles or different technologies. You don’t know when you will need that knowledge or what kind of new flavor it can give to your work.
• Use the breaks – for styling or ... to talk with new people
• Use the reflexion of you from the mirror (or from what other people use to tell you) – it helps you to improve your skills

In the end, you can receive this kind of lessons from very different areas. So the the list can continue with more items.

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