Career Personality Test

In the work I do with Applicant Tracking and Assessments, I am in the front lines of Human Resources.

Sometimes it takes a surprise to cut through the fog.  Rather than words, a plant can speak volumes.  A dead plant can be better.

I am in a borrowed office.  Rummaging for copier paper, I found a mummified office plant that had died of thirst years ago.  It was big.  It was brown.  It was very dead.

Just as I found it, one of our clients was on the phone talking about how her employees were griping about the reduction in benefits that was happening because of the economy.  She loves our assessments and our applicant system, but has to cut back on some of the "perks" that people have grown accustomed to.

Rather than giving logical answers to the employees, I reccomend that she replace all of the greenery and cheerful flowers in her office with dessicated, dusty relics of plants that have met an untimely end.

That way, when someone comes to complain, they can be met with a shrug and a gesture to a very tangible reminder that things are different, and could be far worse...

I am not a very cynical person.  I really have a green thumb.  Just let me know if you would like my plant.  I'd be happy to deliver....

or, buy an applicant management system or some assessment tools, and I'll throw the plant in for free!