“寒门无贵子”的这种说法无论在国内还是在国外都有。美国有一本书《Our Kids：American Dream in Crisis》就分析了美国贫富阶层孩子在各方面的差异性。美国顶尖学校的招生潜规则也让人认为是不是普通家庭出生的小孩就没有希望在就业当中成功呢？Regina的演讲从另一个角度分析了那些“弱势”人群。

 

作为UPS的资深人力资源主管，一开头就给出了一个选择题：

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假设你是招聘人，桌上有两份应聘简历，Person A: Ivy League, 4.0, flawless resume, great recommendations. All the right stuff. Person B: state school, fair amount of job hopping, and odd jobs like cashier and singing waitress.  Both are qualified. 面对这样的简历，你如何选择？

Regina称A为 "the Silver Spoon," the one who clearly had advantages and was destined for success. 称为B "the Scrapper," the one who had to fight against tremendous odds to get to the same point. 在她从事人力资源这么多年，也曾经会将一些看起来很普通的简历，例如B类人群的简历直接扔进垃圾桶，但是后来她意识到了A resume tells a story. At the very least, the Scrapper deserves an interview.

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有人会说是不是她歧视那些精英简历啊？她解释说To be clear, I don't hold anything against the Silver Spoon; getting into and graduating from an elite university takes a lot of hard work and sacrifice. But if your whole life has been engineered toward success, how will you handle the tough times? 她能这样说是来自于她个个人经历：I want to urge you to interview the Scrapper. I know a lot about this because I am a Scrapper. 从小她的生活环境比较艰苦，正是这种艰苦的环境磨练了她的意志。随着她接触了更多的各领域的领导者，她发现他们都有一些共同点，例如：Many of them had experienced early hardships, anywhere from poverty, abandonment, death of a parent while young, to learning disabilities, alcoholism and violence. The conventional thinking has been that trauma leads to distress, and there's been a lot of focus on the resulting dysfunction. But during studies of dysfunction, data revealed an unexpected insight: that even the worst circumstances can result in growth and transformation. A remarkable and counterintuitive phenomenon has been discovered, which scientists call Post Traumatic Growth. 在她看来，Scrapper有这些优点：

Scrappers are propelled by the belief that the only person you have full control over is yourself. When things don't turn out well, Scrappers ask, "What can I do differently to create a better result?"

 

Scrappers know that humor gets you through the tough times, and laughter helps you change your perspective.

 

And finally, there are relationships.

说了Scrapper这么多好处，是不是就是要选Scrapper呢？她说choose the underestimated contender, whose secret weapons are passion and purpose. 并建议大家不要轻易丢掉Scrapper的简历。

 

Regina的这个建议虽然不一定适合国内的状况，但她从另一个角度思考问题的方法是值得借鉴的。

演讲视频和文字链接：https://www.ted.com/talks/regina_hartley_why_the_best_hire_might_not_have_the_perfect_resume/transcript?language=en#t-508151