{"id":1815,"date":"2006-06-19T13:12:36","date_gmt":"2006-06-19T20:12:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=1815","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\\\"http:\/\/blog.guykawasaki.com\/2006\/01\/the_art_of_recr.html\\\">The Art of Recruiting<\/a> from <a href=\\\"http:\/\/blog.guykawasaki.com\/\\\">Guy Kawasaki\\&#8217;s blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>8. Sell all the decision makers. A candidate seldom makes a decision all by herself. There can be several other people contributing to the decision&#8230;with Asian Americans, it can even be parents because Asian Americans are perpetually trying to make their parents happy. In the interviews, simply ask, \u201cWho is helping you make this decision?\u201d And then see if you can make them happy too.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>What caught my eye was how he addressed Asian Americans&#8211;the things recruiters should do to get Asian American candidates sold onto job opportunities.  Now I don\\&#8217;t like tauting that label around.  When asked, I would awkwardly pause and say, \\&#8221;I am American.\\&#8221; Not that I am rejecting my Asian heritage.  It\\&#8217;s that I never think about it.<\/p>\n<p>Yet it\\&#8217;s true.  In some way, I am trying to make my parents happy.  Sure I decided to do a masters degree rather than the law degree or a medical degree.  I did a professional masters rather than an academic one.  And I chose the science that was not as grounded in reality.<\/p>\n<p>So there\\&#8217;s a part of me that wants to completely reject this entire set path of life and go off to be a penniless writer.  But that\\&#8217;s really not that asian&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Art of Recruiting from Guy Kawasaki\\&#8217;s blog 8. Sell all the decision makers. A candidate seldom makes a decision all by herself. There can be several other people contributing to the decision&#8230;with Asian Americans, it can even be parents &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=1815\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}