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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PMF_II" data-source="post: 5507" data-attributes="member: 35">There’s a book on this topic: “Leading Professionals - Power, Politics, and Prima Donnas”. I went to the launch of this book last year and met David Morley (former A&O senior partner). He was interviewed for the book and invited to join a panel discussion at the event. I was shocked to hear the author’s (Laura Donnas) analysis of the recruitment strategy for professional services firms (consulting, law, accounting, etc). Her argument was that professional services firms target “insecure overachievers”. Those high achieving individuals always need social validation in the form of education at a highly ranked university, prizes, employment at a famous organisation and high incomes. They’re the one who will give the job their all (and therefore can be easily exploited) because they can’t face the pressure of losing stability and social respect. Here is an extract from an FT article about the book:“Cass Business School’s Laura Empson, author of <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/leading-professionals-9780198744788?cc=gb&lang=en&" target="_blank">Leading Professionals</a>, from which these quotations are drawn, cites a human resources director who went out of her way to hire insecure overachievers for a big accountancy group. Prof Empson suggested she was “like a drug dealer, deliberately seeking out vulnerable people and getting them hooked on the high-status identity” of the firm. The HR director did not deny it.”I think there’re a lot of problems with the current graduate recruitment process. However, graduate recruitment is the gatekeeper, so we’ll have to accept the rules. It doesn’t mean you need to go against your values/principles to succeed in this process, though. As an example, many people have told me to be active on LinkedIn to get noticed by graduate recruitment. For me, social media, including LinkedIn is pure distraction, and I don’t like adding “noises” from other people’s lives to my life. I’m a full-time professional (working in PR, ironically), but I don’t have an active LinkedIn account. I still got TC interviews. Another book I really like is “Quiet” by Susan Cain. She went to HLS and practiced for seven years at Cleary. She is an introvert, as you can guess from the title of the book. Read it and you’ll feel the need to become an extrovert.</blockquote>

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