Comments on: Perceptions http://destinationtalent.com.au/blog/2009/10/22/perceptions/ A portal for all things recruitment in Australia Mon, 19 Jul 2010 04:28:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Jennifer Nini, Syncron Consulting http://destinationtalent.com.au/blog/2009/10/22/perceptions/comment-page-1/#comment-2208 Jennifer Nini, Syncron Consulting Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:45:58 +0000 http://www.destinationtalent.com.au/blog/2009/10/22/perceptions/#comment-2208 I agree with Aylin - but to your first point where you try and re-educate people to change their opinion of you. It's not a matter of what you say but also what you do... people pass judgements on other people, companies, anything really.. as a result of what they hear and what they see. Human nature is a funny thing, and sometimes, it doesn't matter how hard you try, you cannot control how people perceive you. That's just life. I agree with Aylin – but to your first point where you try and re-educate people to change their opinion of you. It’s not a matter of what you say but also what you do… people pass judgements on other people, companies, anything really.. as a result of what they hear and what they see. Human nature is a funny thing, and sometimes, it doesn’t matter how hard you try, you cannot control how people perceive you. That’s just life.

]]> By: Aylin http://destinationtalent.com.au/blog/2009/10/22/perceptions/comment-page-1/#comment-2197 Aylin Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:06:17 +0000 http://www.destinationtalent.com.au/blog/2009/10/22/perceptions/#comment-2197 Hi Phillip, I think that most of the time when people perceive or label us really and in your case, as a statistician; a perception is created and a lot of the time unconsciously. Agreeing of course that any message we broadcast creates association to a certain identity and that’s okay because it’s just human nature to match like with like – and like anything associating people with something familiar to us. What I do believe is that no matter how we may be perceived by others that we stay true to ourselves, by understanding who we really are. In every aspect of our lives, not solely professional we are perceived through our actions in a certain way. What should always prevail are our thoughts and perception that we have of ourselves. Chimamanda Adichie provides a great example of this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Ihs241zeg Great entry Phil! Hi Phillip,
I think that most of the time when people perceive or label us really and in your case, as a statistician; a perception is created and a lot of the time unconsciously. Agreeing of course that any message we broadcast creates association to a certain identity and that’s okay because it’s just human nature to match like with like – and like anything associating people with something familiar to us.
What I do believe is that no matter how we may be perceived by others that we stay true to ourselves, by understanding who we really are. In every aspect of our lives, not solely professional we are perceived through our actions in a certain way. What should always prevail are our thoughts and perception that we have of ourselves.

Chimamanda Adichie provides a great example of this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Ihs241zeg
Great entry Phil!

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