Attributes
This morning we were talking about listing real job skills. Or attributes. And what they have to do with finding a job getting a job actually being hired.
Many years ago a friend sent me to a woman who called her job Head Hunter imagine that hunting heads anyway her name was Joyce Payton (in case you are worried her name wasn't really Joyce Payton) and even though I didn't want what everyone else called A Real Job I wanted a Fake Job whatever that might be Joyce Payton explained that she had a Very Important Exercise that I Had To Do to qualify for a Real Job. The exercise consisted of writing my ATTRIBUTES on a yellow pad, clearly, so Joyce could read them back out loud to me. This part of the story is true. I wrote a very long list of what I considered to be Strong Points. I remember one: there are always pistachio nuts in my home. Another was I know how to make Lebanese BabaGanoush. When she looked, Joyce P. didn't want to read my list out loud but I told her that was our tacit agreement and so she did although she made it very clear that my skills had little to do with Getting a Job. I made a XEROX of the list and brought it home to Harry who did an Oral Reading and he guaranteed me that he would hire me immediately if he ever got a job.