The Star Profile: A Management Tool to Unleash Employee Potential

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STAR Profiles are the difference between winners and losers in the New World of Work where employers demand much more than a list of skills on an analogue CV.

Zarélsie Van der Merwe is an International Career Strategy Expert, Career Coach, and Migration Mentor - helping international candidates land dream jobs – globally. You can put this image into your work. The Evaluations on the left show your comments. My samosas need a little more baking and more flavour with some spices.The new vice president of HR would report to the company's chief operating officer, Bob. I sat down with Bob and helped him create a "star profile," which is a list of the core behaviors that lead to success in the job. When I shared the second profile characteristic with Mary about avoiding bureaucracy, she laughed and said, "We HR professionals do have a tendency to slap a policy on it!" Mary shared a methodology she used to avoid what she called "handbook creep."

However, the committee was divided on whom to hire. As the company's employment attorney and employee relations advisor, I was asked to interview the finalists and weigh in on which candidate I thought would be a better fit. the flowers in time and apologised in person. I gave both customers a voucher for a bouquet as compensation. Our founder is a wonderfully talented, caring and occasionally high-maintenance human being. He brims with ideas. Some of them have been fantastic and are why we're in the successful place we're in today. Some of them, well … Yet he's enthusiastic about all of his ideas. A successful VP of operations will develop a relationship in which our founder trusts the VP's judgment on which ideas to pursue and which not to pursue. What are your thoughts or questions?" Responsibilities/relationships?What were the relationships that were impacted, built, improved, etc? In the new World of Work, it is becoming exceedingly hard to find a job … especially as an immigrant and especially from a distance.

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This is not the best way to hire the best people. Consider the "star profile" instead to guide your hiring decisions.

I'm going to share with you what I call a star profile. It's a description of the actual behaviors that make the difference, in my view, between a successful and an unsuccessful fit between the candidate and the job. I'll share each characteristic and why I chose the words I did. We'll then discuss whether you see yourself in that role." The simplest way of creating a STAR profile is to write out the above on an A4 sheet of paper as succinct but also comprehensive as possible. It requires that a candidate provides value and proof of his/her abilities … even before being hired. This was Janet's response to the third characteristic:"When I get aggravated by an over-the-top executive, I go to my office, close the door, take out a box of chocolates from my desk and eat one." It can catapult a mediocre candidate to stardom – simply by utilising examples of excellent work, accolades, projects, etc, in a way to demonstrate far more than what is on a CV.

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We value humility and expect our leaders to be humble. This means no matter what your title, you can always listen to and learn from others. What do you think?" You can use the STAR method to structure the examples you give to questions, especially in interviews. You can use it to highlight particular skills and qualities you have that the employer is looking for. That is now the only way to compete internationally and stand out above other similar candidates with a similar set of skills, qualifications, and experiences. It can be captured in a text form (written out), in videos, photos, online portfolios of all kinds, etc.