Talent. Yes, the one Leonardo Da Vinvi, Albert Einstein,
William Shakespeare, Abraham Lincoln and many others had. That's what will make
you succeed. That and a little luck. Take advantage of the opportunities you
have because they may not be repeated again.
If you have a career, a Master, you speak 3 languages and
countless training then you are perfectly normal in the world of business.
You might be wondering: What is this article about? Well I
will try to explain in the simplest way, but first let me show you the
following graph:
I imagine many of you know what this famous curve
represents, for those who doen't, I will say it is the famous bell curve, which
is able to summarize the distribution of elements of a total, differentiating
among them the most common of which less depending on the variable under study.
Now some will be moving the mouse cursor to the link "next
blog" because they have not understood anything. Come on, keep with me
just a while, lets say an example for all to see it clearly.
Imagine that what is measured is for instance the average
height of the population of Belgium. Smaller kids would be located
to the left of the chart (what appears to be 0.1%) would represent, people from less than 3 feet tall. Then we'll find 3 to 4,5 feet
(13.6%), leaving the central area for common heights (two strips of 34.1%,
totaling 68.2%) and thus finished with the highest proportions thereof to the
lowest. That is, the average of all Belgians will be the black line right in
the middle of the bell curve.
As you can see, the central strip represents the large crowd
of people who do not stand out or be very high nor very low. The vast majority
of the variables are on average and exceptions on both ends delimit the full
extent of the variables.
Nevertheless this graph is capable of reflecting many
variables (weight, height, salary, age ...), but I what wanted to speak today
about is personal skills and how they affect the hiring by businesses.
Let's say a company wants to incorporate an administrative
who will be responsible for the management and administration of the human
resources department because the former employee is retiring.
What profile will be the company be looking for? Yeah, I
mean the company, not the person within the company. The company, like a robot,
wants (and so i will do) the best and most qualified professional to perform
this task.
If the company finds a worker with degree it will be better
than one with diploma, with masters in management and business administration and
if the school is well known even better, with 2 languages besides native and
of course with extensive experience (not newly qualified, young but with 10 years
experience) in that sector. As we already know what companies are asking for we
start preparing ourselves since we born.
I guess this description will sound familiar to many of you
who are looking for employment, for those of you who have found recently a job or
may know someone in that situation.
Here is my my opinion. Knowing "Law of supply and
demand" which regulates basically one to the other and vice versa and considering
what the demand is (that you have already read). So we can say that if every
job demand asks for more or less the same criteria it is obvious that the
worker selected will be the one that outstands over the others (speaks one more
idiom, has another master degree, another bachelor...).
In the 80s, a degree in Spain warrantied to find work since
there was a different distribution. There were more people with basic
education, than graduates (surveyors, management and business management ...)
and these more than the ones with master degrees (architects, engineers ...). Those
were in the right part of the graph.
Of course it was a nice advice we heard thirty years ago :
"Hey kid you must study a masters degree if want to someone someday!. There
was no time to waste, we dedicated all our efforts to study everything we could.
And then we finished the masters degree. We and the rest of the wisely advised.
Too much offer of high qualified people for a little high qualified market
demand.
Companies would not hire none of us by the mere fact of having
completed a bachelor, they had to differentiate and select the best among the
best. So the master (in any discipline) will differentiate you from others ...
or maybe not, languages wouldn't make the difference either.
If the trend continues, we would have a professional
framework with the following distribution in the coming years.
So who would occupy the right side of the graph? Professionals
with 3 or more bachelors, 1 or more masters, 4 or more languages and 10 years
experience, with less than 35 years. Will this profile ever exist? What population
distribution are we talking about? Gifted?. Not really.
Obviously we will not get to that, however there will always
be someone in charge of fill that small space on the right of the graph. People
with TALENT.
Some of you may remember the Tamagotchi, a kind of videogame
with a small screen in what we would call a gadget toy consisting in making a
pet grow and play with it. Actually the concept is fairly simple, but turned
out to be an overwhelming success in the late 90s all over the world. Its
creator became millionaire in a few weeks with a simple product. People with ideas, projects, often simple, made with
talent can succeed incredibly.
CONCLUSION
If you have a project with a good and powerful idea, take it
out. The world needs people with good ideas. If instead you decide to pursue a
career, a master's degree and master 2 languages (before you turn 30) i wish
you good luck, you may get and average job as many others.
So, what do you think?
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