Reading culture is not given due importance.

As a senior leader with many years of experience in large enterprises and corporations, and also a pedagogical researcher of the art of practical applied leadership, I have worked in many enterprises and met hundreds of business owners and realized that: "Most business owners do not or have not yet formed a reading culture, making the application documents of senior candidates ineffective... The minimum respect for candidates is not emphasized or emphasized!"

With the constant fluctuations of the "VUCA era", the management mindset of a merchant or a nouveau riche will soon be eliminated from the labor market in Vietnam....

Why do business owners rarely read senior candidates' resumes?

“Busy” – a dry adjective to justify an action that is not really honest, brave and somewhat “bossy” for a large number of business owners in Vietnam. The reality is, when people realize that something is important, they will inevitably have time for it. Reading the application of a senior candidate, is that “extra activity” in the business? I am sure that is the management mindset of a businessman!

In the university lecture hall, diligent and responsible lecturers like us have been working hard day and night to train the “future generation” to carefully write each word and each argument in the application documents. We provide detailed instructions on how to write and structure the application documents to be truly neat, showing absolute respect for the business and the employer. However, business owners have the opposite mindset, with actions that should be condemned and criticized...

Many business owners rarely read senior candidates' resumes (Illustration photo).

Is recruitment a “one-way” activity? Only one side respects, the other side is indifferent and assumes “you need us”? In reality, there are many business owners with this mindset and the turnover of personnel in their businesses is also very large, the story of personnel “going in and out” of the business happens frequently. It seems that they do not care because they think it is a natural “law” and it must obviously happen like that...

We must admit that it is absolutely impossible to change the mindset of business owners who have been successful in the market with the philosophy of living and working “indifferent and unique” (quoted from the book “Traders, Nouveau Riche and Entrepreneurs: Different Management Thinking). They do not care to listen to or seek advice from anyone and they alone are the truth, the “saints” in the business. Because of that mindset, the market in our country rarely has true “entrepreneurs”...

Literature is anthropology, need to eliminate commercial thinking!

Since our school days, we have heard the saying of the great Russian writer M. Gorki: “Literature is Anthropology”. Is a person who does not like “reading culture” an upright and courageous person? Doing business is also being human (Gian Si Zhong), we can look at the way they do business, treat employees and recruit candidates to somewhat evaluate the ethics and “cultural capacity” of the business owner.

MSc. Nguyen Pham Huu Hau - Enterprise restructuring expert.

We are often naive with the argument that: "A successful and wealthy businessman is... an entrepreneur". This is true, but only applies to certain cases, not most. For example, for Mr. Trinh Van Quyet, Do Anh Dung, Tran Qui Thanh... who have been and are in trouble with the law, are they worthy of being called... "entrepreneurs" even though they have assets of thousands of billions. Entrepreneur is a noble title, not a random title to put before the names of business owners who have been and are harming the interests of customers and society.

We often teach our children and subordinates to live and work according to the law, to promote the humanity of "Truth - Goodness - Beauty" in business culture. Why do we act contrary to what we have said? Many business owners have hired teachers to teach their employees, helping them develop their capacity better. However, they themselves are not open-minded and do not promote "Reading Culture" - Is this a paradox that has existed and is still existing sustainably in businesses?

Reading a senior candidate’s resume is a small act and doesn’t take much time. But it shows the respect of the business for the candidate. That respect is an important catalyst for the business owner to become an unyielding monument in the minds of the recruiter and the employee.

Think about it, if the wise kings had not read “Binh Ngo Sach” (Nguyen Trai) or “Ngoa Long Cuong Van” (Dao Duy Tu), would they have found and recruited talented people to build a great cause and leave their names forever? If they could not have the “clear determination” of their predecessors, they would at least have had the virtue of a leader with cultural capacity...

Master Nguyen Pham Huu Hau

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