Honesty & Professionalism

Let say you are a businessman. You are dealing with a project which have a very tight deadline. You need to recruit a new employee very soon for a very important position. Then, somehow you find yourself in one condition that you have to choose one from two candidates.

1st 100% fully capable but tends to un-honest

2nd 100% trustworthy but tends to not fully capable

Which one do you pick?

Ugh.. troublesome situation isn’t it? 

But people say that this one is a common problem. Skillful and smart person, knows too much so that they tends to un-honest on someway. On the other hand, honest person tends to not professional since people like to trust them and give them jobs so that they have less struggling effort.   

The best condition is of course you work with honest and professional people. One thing to consider is that you have to pay them quite expensive and you need to have a good employee retention program since so many companies want this kind of person to work with them.

While I am writing this post, I try to search through google with search term “honest professional” and I found so many companies using this “jargon” in their business. Hope they really have a commitment to be honest and professional.   

  

Cheers//Adi Anggarayudha       

The Global Competence..

Last month, I’ve upload some posting about Overseas Jobs. The 1st posting containing website addresses where you can try to look into for finding an overseas jobs and another posting is about security in job search through the internet.

Now, I am interested to try to figure out about the global competence. What competence needed to be acquired if you want to find an overseas jobs. As I notice these competence comprises of three main things defined as knowledge, skill and attitudes as stated by Howard A. Rollins, Jr from Georgia Institute of Technology in his presentation file.

Knowledge

• Basic facts and concepts of globalization
• Comparative politics, global economy
• Country/region specific information  

Skills

• Putting knowledge into practice
• Ability to communicate and work comfortably in other   countries/cultures

Attitudes/beliefs

• Tolerance of other cultures and their approaches
• Appreciation for other cultures
• Respect for other cultures and understanding of the pros and cons of various cultures including one’s own culture

Cheers//Adi Anggarayudha