Ashish Kothari argues that resumes hide who you actually are by leaving out family, hobbies, and what brings you joy. This omission limits both people and organizations. He calls for hiring and workplace culture to value potential and passion, not just past performance.
So often we've been asked to not talk about who we are. We don't put things on the resume, we don't put things into LinkedIn, but these are things that are often very defining and very meaningful for each of us. And, you know, there's socially we've been told, don't talk about your kids in the professional experience, don't talk about your hobbies or things that you find joy in or things that make you who you uniquely are. And yet we want people to show up as their whole selves at work, or we want them to bring everything they can. How can you possibly do that if you're extracting and minimizing? I think the more expansive we are, the bigger we think of ourselves, and the bigger we think of the world around us, so much more is possible. And so I want to lean into potential and not necessarily past performance. I want to lean into things that get people excited about themselves and have joy in, in little things they do and celebrate that.
Reducing Regrettable Attrition in Organizations by Fixing the System, Not the People Reducing Regret
