At one point I went to a lecture where the lecturer spoke of one of these usual recruitment interviews, where the interviewer asked the hopeful candidate the traditional question: "Where are you in five years?"
The applicant had the courage to answer "At that time I sit in your chair!"
From here, what happened further fades in to the mist - the story does not even tell whether the applicant got the job, but we can guess that the outcome to some extent had something to do with the interviewer's courage: if she was a little nervous and looked at the recruitment as part of a zero-zero game where the total amount of team cake is a constant, she would naturally feel somewhat threatened.
But if she was able to see the possibilities - and able to examine the applicant so well that she dared to trust that the person could contribute constructively to the progress - thereby ensuring growth and positive development - there are certainly perspectives in having such an employee.
Maybe there would even be room for promotion of the employee without the expense of the person hiring her - maybe because the hiring manager herself was destined for bigger things.
(Translated from Noget om siddepladser, originally published May 2nd, 2016)
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