Coincidence

“A coincidence is a small miracle in which God chooses to remain anonymous.”
Fr. Jerome Cummings

I heard this great story, which I am reproducing.
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His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to eke out a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog. He dropped his tools and ran to the bog.

There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free himself. Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could have been a slow and terrifying death. The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman's sparse surroundings. An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as the father of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved.

"I want to repay you," said the nobleman. "You saved my son's life."

"No, I can't accept payment for what I did," the Scottish farmer replied, waving off the offer.

At that moment, the farmer's own son came to the door of the family hovel. "Is that your son?" the nobleman asked.

"Yes," the farmer replied proudly.

"I'll make you a deal. Let me take him and give him a good education. If the lad is anything like his father, he'll grow to a man you can be proud of."

And that he did. In time, Farmer Fleming's son graduated from St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, and went on to become known throughout the world as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of Penicillin. Years afterward, the nobleman's son was stricken with pneumonia. What saved him? Penicillin. The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill. His son's name? Sir Winston Churchill.

Writing your CV

"Market your Potential, Not your Past"

For many years now, I have been recruiting guys into my company and one of the things that I really want to emphasise is the value that you can show in your CV / Resume / Bio Data.

Consider this, that CV/ Resume is your advertisement of you as a product. And, more often than not like every bad advertisement that you remember for it being so run of the mill, here is what is very common to those. They all talk a lot of the product features. Contrast this with the advertisements that you do remember and you do coz, they were the ones that created a picture in your mind, an association to something that you aspire, or cherish.

Ditto for your CV!

Show them a story board, where you draw a picture for them. The best employees that I have seen performing have been those who have created a picture of the potential that have, want to explore or have an attitude to deliver.

Thats what successes are made of.