“The most pertinent question one can ask of a current or future employee may just be: How do you learn? Lifelong learning is now roundly considered to be an economic imperative, and job candidates or employees who consider, update, and improve their skills will be the high performers, especially over the longer term. Pressing ourselves on the question of how we learn brings a hard, pragmatic edge to the important but nebulous notion of growth mindset. The world and the workplace have changed considerably in the past year. The skills we need to function and flourish have correspondingly changed, and so we need to bring them into a smarter, sharper focus to know what they are and to seek them out proactively, persistently, and methodically.”

This is the summary of the article, by Marc Zao-Sanders, Identify — and Hire — Lifelong Learners (HBR, 13 May 2021).

QUESTION:
How are you helping managers to recuit people who are lifelong learners? What questions are they asking them to identify whether they have the skills and motivation to learn for themselves?

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