为什么你应该创建一个失败的履历履历

我已经告诉学生们多少次了，你只能从失败中学习。不管我们听了多少遍，我们仍然害怕失败，并把它看作是我们作为人类价值的某种深层衡量标准。在过去的几周里，我进行了几次关于失败的谈话。Joel Ruffin（05届），高盛技术部门的副总裁，解释了高盛是如何想听到他们员工的失败，他们重视失败。在过去的几周里，大约有三个人提到了建立一个失败的履历履历，Joel就是其中之一。

那么，为什么要创建一个失败的汇汇表呢？在他的《纽约时报》文章中，题为“你是否保留了一个失败的履历？”Tim Herrera写道：“你的正常履历记录了你的成功、成就和整体进步，而你的失败履历记录了你没有达到目标的时间，以及你从中吸取的教训。”他补充说：“因为你从失败中学到的东西要比从成功中学到的多得多，诚实地分析一个人的失败可以让我们进行内省，从而帮助我们成长——同时也表明通往成功的道路不是一条直线。”

在制定失败清单时，目的不是简单地列出失败，而是要关注你从这些失败中学到了什么。例如，我戏剧性地辞去了大学毕业后的第一份工作。我写了一封措辞严厉的辞职信，天真地以为这会产生影响，结果却被叫到董事长办公室。他让我坐下来，平静地解释说，虽然我在信中有一些有效的观点，但由于我的表达方式，没有人会听，而且，我已经断了许多后路，他建议我以后不要这样做。当时我并不认为这是一次失败，但确实是一次彻底的失败。那么，我该如何将其包含在失败的履历中呢？

Sample Failure Résumé

ABC Company

Kennebunk, Maine

December 1988

Resigned after six months of employment, by writing a resignation letter detailing a long list of company faults.

• I let my ego get the better of me versus thinking more strategically
• I let my frustrations boil over versus trying to deal with them in a more timely fashion with my supervisor
• I let others feed into my frustration versus focusing on my work and my experience
• I burned at least three bridges in this process

In taking an introspective look at that experience through a failure résumé, I can extract three key elements: I burned bridges, I let other people unduly influence me, and I was reactive instead of proactive.

Like your success résumé, a failure résumé should be added to whenever you have a failure. It allows you to see if there is a pattern over time, which provides you with a pathway for growth and development. Are you still not good with time management, such that you are repeatedly missing project deadlines? Do you continue to get too involved in office politics? Do you yell at your colleagues when you get stressed causing issues? You can’t address your own failures if you can’t see them, so be open to seeing your failures and commit to learning from them.

Best,

Anne Converse Willkomm

Assistant Clinical Professor

Department Head of Graduate Studies

Goodwin College of Professional Studies

Drexel University