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Colleen Pelly

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Habits and Hustle
Episode 443: Colleen Pelly: The Secret Quality That Makes You More Hireable Than Technical Skills

Yes and no. Like I think... The Gen Z generation, I guess, like, has... They'll just say no. And so, like, yes. Like, the real black would be like, okay, that doesn't work for you. Then it's not the right opportunity for you. And I'd rather not place you because you're going to quit anyway. And, like, we're going to waste time and resources. So I think...

Habits and Hustle
Episode 443: Colleen Pelly: The Secret Quality That Makes You More Hireable Than Technical Skills

If we're going to find a silver lining, because that's my mentality, would be like, it's just opening the door for the right people. So I think like my job as a recruiter, my job if we're going to use sales is I just need to paint the picture completely transparently. Like this is what it looks like and it works for you. It doesn't. Right.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 443: Colleen Pelly: The Secret Quality That Makes You More Hireable Than Technical Skills

If we're going to find a silver lining, because that's my mentality, would be like, it's just opening the door for the right people. So I think like my job as a recruiter, my job if we're going to use sales is I just need to paint the picture completely transparently. Like this is what it looks like and it works for you. It doesn't. Right.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 443: Colleen Pelly: The Secret Quality That Makes You More Hireable Than Technical Skills

If we're going to find a silver lining, because that's my mentality, would be like, it's just opening the door for the right people. So I think like my job as a recruiter, my job if we're going to use sales is I just need to paint the picture completely transparently. Like this is what it looks like and it works for you. It doesn't. Right.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 443: Colleen Pelly: The Secret Quality That Makes You More Hireable Than Technical Skills

And I think as a sales tactic in general, you want the person to always feel like it's their decision. right? Like even if I'm guiding the process and I'm guiding the decision process, I want you to always feel like you're the one making the choice. And so it's like, here's exactly what it looks like. If this doesn't work for you, that's okay.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 443: Colleen Pelly: The Secret Quality That Makes You More Hireable Than Technical Skills

And I think as a sales tactic in general, you want the person to always feel like it's their decision. right? Like even if I'm guiding the process and I'm guiding the decision process, I want you to always feel like you're the one making the choice. And so it's like, here's exactly what it looks like. If this doesn't work for you, that's okay.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 443: Colleen Pelly: The Secret Quality That Makes You More Hireable Than Technical Skills

And I think as a sales tactic in general, you want the person to always feel like it's their decision. right? Like even if I'm guiding the process and I'm guiding the decision process, I want you to always feel like you're the one making the choice. And so it's like, here's exactly what it looks like. If this doesn't work for you, that's okay.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 443: Colleen Pelly: The Secret Quality That Makes You More Hireable Than Technical Skills

And I'm not going to be offended if this isn't the right opportunity for you. Here's why I think it is. And you can let me know if you want to have a conversation about it. And I will say there are, like when I think about the senior C-suite level, not even C-suite, but like just senior director, VP level to like this younger generation, there is a difference in work ethic in terms of like

Habits and Hustle
Episode 443: Colleen Pelly: The Secret Quality That Makes You More Hireable Than Technical Skills

And I'm not going to be offended if this isn't the right opportunity for you. Here's why I think it is. And you can let me know if you want to have a conversation about it. And I will say there are, like when I think about the senior C-suite level, not even C-suite, but like just senior director, VP level to like this younger generation, there is a difference in work ethic in terms of like

Habits and Hustle
Episode 443: Colleen Pelly: The Secret Quality That Makes You More Hireable Than Technical Skills

And I'm not going to be offended if this isn't the right opportunity for you. Here's why I think it is. And you can let me know if you want to have a conversation about it. And I will say there are, like when I think about the senior C-suite level, not even C-suite, but like just senior director, VP level to like this younger generation, there is a difference in work ethic in terms of like

Habits and Hustle
Episode 443: Colleen Pelly: The Secret Quality That Makes You More Hireable Than Technical Skills

what they're willing to do like commuting to COVID really, like when I first started my hiring, and you know, the world was not on fire yet was 45 minute queue is normal. And now people are like, I'm not leaving my house. So that's definitely been different.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 443: Colleen Pelly: The Secret Quality That Makes You More Hireable Than Technical Skills

what they're willing to do like commuting to COVID really, like when I first started my hiring, and you know, the world was not on fire yet was 45 minute queue is normal. And now people are like, I'm not leaving my house. So that's definitely been different.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 443: Colleen Pelly: The Secret Quality That Makes You More Hireable Than Technical Skills

what they're willing to do like commuting to COVID really, like when I first started my hiring, and you know, the world was not on fire yet was 45 minute queue is normal. And now people are like, I'm not leaving my house. So that's definitely been different.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 443: Colleen Pelly: The Secret Quality That Makes You More Hireable Than Technical Skills

So like, if we have a role that's in office, and it's like more than 30 minutes, we can't like search, I would say 30 minutes, like the max people are willing to drive.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 443: Colleen Pelly: The Secret Quality That Makes You More Hireable Than Technical Skills

So like, if we have a role that's in office, and it's like more than 30 minutes, we can't like search, I would say 30 minutes, like the max people are willing to drive.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 443: Colleen Pelly: The Secret Quality That Makes You More Hireable Than Technical Skills

So like, if we have a role that's in office, and it's like more than 30 minutes, we can't like search, I would say 30 minutes, like the max people are willing to drive.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 443: Colleen Pelly: The Secret Quality That Makes You More Hireable Than Technical Skills

And that's shifted a lot because it used to be like, you know, in Toronto, people could live outside of the city and they would willingly commute in every day.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 443: Colleen Pelly: The Secret Quality That Makes You More Hireable Than Technical Skills

And that's shifted a lot because it used to be like, you know, in Toronto, people could live outside of the city and they would willingly commute in every day.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 443: Colleen Pelly: The Secret Quality That Makes You More Hireable Than Technical Skills

And that's shifted a lot because it used to be like, you know, in Toronto, people could live outside of the city and they would willingly commute in every day.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 443: Colleen Pelly: The Secret Quality That Makes You More Hireable Than Technical Skills

Yeah. It's not a thing anymore.