Directly under my name on my business card, I’m using three words to describe myself. They are:
Marketer ~ Entrepreneur ~ Dreamer
The first two are easy. It’s the third one that poses a problem for some. It’s the third one that makes people take a second glance. It’s that one that irks a few people.
You see, businesses and organizations have told us they don’t want dreamers.
We bought into it. And, because they told us they didn’t want dreamers, we listened. We stopped dreaming and stopped allowing ourselves to dream.
You’d never get past the interview stage, if you told them you were a dreamer. That’s the biggest mistake businesses and HR people make.
The people they actually want to hire are the dreamers. It’s your job to show them why.
The business started with a dream. Their profit projections were part of a dream. Their new products and service offerings were the result of the dream. Everything that has breathed life into any business or organization is the result of a dream. Dreamers are the reason you’re at the interview in the first place.
And even though they say they don’t want dreamers, profits are declining, businesses are closing, jobs are being shipped elsewhere, and creativity is stagnant. Deep-down the world is begging for dreamers. The next time you have a job interview, let them see who you really are, not the person that the 101 Job Interview Tips book told you to be.
You have a choice. You can choose to be just another cog in the machine, or, you can choose to be dreamer. If the job you’re interviewing for doesn’t believe in dreamers, then move on.
You’re dreaming. They’re in a coma.
