One of our Esperanza Board members--Flavia McKnight-- asked me to review a resumé that she needed to write for a class assignment. It made me start thinking about what will be important to us as we hire Esperanza staff.
As we look for Esperanza staff there are certain things that will catch our attention in a resumé, in an interview, and in conversations with references. Jack Griffin, author of How to Say It: Be Indispensable at Work captures some of the qualities that will be extremely important not only to get hired but also to keep one's job and to get promoted.
Griffin says that every business speaks and thinks in the language of money. The language we want to speak and think at Esperanza is results. The bottom line for all we do is the impact it has on Esperanza scholars and their growth. Therefore, someone's position and duties in that position don't mean as much as what effect those duties had on student growth. In other words, it would be much more impressive to see that 100% of students participating in a tutoring program advanced than just stating that a tutoring program was implemented.
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