Mine my old gold

 
 

Overview

Many of us are not inclined to look back. We drive without making much use of the rear-view mirror! We’re told to live for today and prepare for the future, so the past doesn’t get a look in.

Yet, our past usually contains big nuggets of experience that have been overlooked, forgotten or under leveraged. While time and technology advances are constantly changing the nature of work, many of the skills and competencies we developed in the past are transferable to our present and future.  More of me has developed useful tools to help you go back and extract your old gold, bringing the best from your past into your future.

For decades now, recruitment professionals across the globe have bought into the notion that our past behaviour is the best predictor of our future behaviour. Likely more than 90% of big recruiters now use some form of behavioural-based interview techniques to improve the reliability of their recruitment decisions. Their questions usually begin with “can you tell me about a time in your previous role/s when you…” It’s such common practice in interviews that it’s become a game for applicants, who prepare anecdotes to trot out in advance to meet the need for ‘evidence of capability’.

At more of me, we’re sure that perspective on past behaviour—hindsight—can still be a reliable predictor of future value, as long as the process is conducted with rigour, objectivity, self-compassion and wholehearted honesty.

Our mine your old gold process leads you to dig deeper in your mining. First, we’ll guide you to select a range of your gold-laden moments, and then we’ll help you to dissect these moments from different perspectives. Yes, this will require you to put in some hours to do it well. But you’re not looking ‘fool’s gold’, you’re after 24-carat purity. Hindsight is infamously subjective and cloudy, so the challenge is to glean facts and patterns without merely wallowing in nostalgia. We know you’ll find your gold nuggets, and the full view of you will be much richer for it. Your more will become closer and clearer.

 

 
“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.”
— Vernon Saunders Law

Mine my old gold: Actions and Outcomes

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Process steps:

  1. Select the golden moments
  2. Dissect the golden moments
  3. Extract and consolidate the learning  
  4. One-on-one coaching follow up
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Time commitment required: 

  • Selection: 0:30 hr
  • Dissection: 5:00 hr
  • Extraction and consolidation: 2:30 hr
  • One-on-one coaching: 1:30 hr

Total time commitment for this step:

9:30 hrs

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Outputs and outcomes:

“The experience of mining your old gold is similar to the process of turning over rocks as a child: the bigger they are, the more there is for you to discover” 

  • An inventory of acquired skills, capabilities and experience
  • A detailed appreciation of which of your skills and competencies are readily transferable from your past into your future
  • As a by-product of the process, you’ll also gain insight into your passions at work and ‘supportive evidence’ of your innate talents
  • Insight into what more work means to you
  • A view on which of your abilities you’re currently under-employing
  • The ability to be more authentic and credible in recruitment interviews