Business Epiphany: How to React to “I Wouldn’t Have Hired You”
Our b5media business channel does “fun friday” topics to attempt to get us all on the same page, trade comments, and, hopefully, enlighten each other…and YOU. This time out we are commenting on our business epiphany: the one moment that influenced our career or business more than any other. Our business channel editor, Kelly of www.taxgirl.com fame, felt this one was a “toughy” but I am blessed with many. Here’s one:
I was admittedly mishired into a sales team environment to help sell large software packages. My only experience was that I had done some project management of part of an implementation. I had very little of what they needed: interview/assessment skills, ability to organize information from many different people, and then present it while demonstrating a very complicated sofware solution.
I was definitely going through on the job training when the sales person on my team point blank said “I would have never hired you.” I went home that night feeling like a failure and wondering where I was to go from here. And here’s the epiphany part: I decided that I would go in and admit my faults and ask that person to work with me to improve and be a successful team.
He became my mentor in the business. My reaction, and his positive response, is why I am where I am today: enjoying an exciting job working for an innovative company. You CAN make lemons out of lemonade!
What about you? Do you have any great stories to tell? Is there a time where you wished you would have responded differently to a “I wouldn’t have hire you” situation?
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