Transcript

As a recruiter, when I’m looking for a resilient applicant, what I’m looking to see is how well they cope with a problem, a challenge, how much they persist at trying to solve that problem, how they engage the people around them – if it’s an assessment centre, for example – to solve that problem. But more importantly, what I’ll try and do is I’ll try and push them into a position where they’re facing failure, perhaps, in some way, shape, or form. And it’s the way that they cope with that failure, the things that they do in terms of the mechanisms they have already learned to cope with that failure and how they talk about their emotions of going through that particular exercise, that for me start to denote a growth mindset. And so as a recruiter I’m looking for a series of positive indicators on a list of, a piece of paper that I can simply just check off and say, ‘Yes, this person’s got more of a growth mindset than a fixed mindset.’