I have been thinking about how recruiters could look for evidence of drive in a candidate. I have heard of techniques such as Behavioural Interviews which ostensibly enable the panel to truly assess the candidate on chosen skills. A search for Behavioural Interviews on the internet however, throws up multiple sites which provide 'model' answers for a number of BI questions. In effect, such sites are showing the candidate how to game the system.
Some components of the CV are good indicators of drive, like consistently stellar academic performance: or having represented one's school or college at the state or national level in a sport or other competition such as debating. Such claims are not difficult to verify. I know of a classmate at B School who claimed to have been a student of classical music (vocal) and the interview panel actually asked him to perform for them during the interview. I had claimed a certain level in Karate and one of my interview panelists, a karate-ka himself, had no qualms about asking me to demonstrate a yoko-geri and a kage-geri.
The issue remains however that the majority of CVs claim above-average academic performance across school, undergrad and graduate school, but not national level sports tournaments or extra curricular achievements. If pursuit of excellence in not demonstrated on the CV, how then could a company get the candidate to demonstrate his or her drive to excel?
Food for thought.
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