A Revolutionary Approach to Talent Recruitment
By Mary Ann Faremouth.
We all grow up with dreams of what we want to be someday. In many cases, those dreams get thwarted or smashed and we end up doing something totally different. There are many different reason why this happens; maybe our parents think we should become something like what they or someone close to them did. We start on a career journey and find out it’s not what we really want to do. We take a job because we have read that it pays well. Maybe what we were trained to do is not in demand and we need to change direction and do something totally different to be able to put food on the table. In other words, our goals change. We find ourselves at a crossroads and not sure how to fix the problem or find a good methodology to help us figure out how to maximize our potential.
As an Executive Recruiter for over 25 years, I’ve heard all of these stories time and time again. One of them really hit home for me because it was my husband’s story. He graduated high school with desires to become a Forest Ranger. His Dad said to him, “I’m an engineer, your Uncle is an engineer, your great aunt is an engineer, and that’s what we think you should do. Go to Texas A&M and get an engineering degree and you will be golden.” And that’s what he did. And he was miserable. When we have such strong desires in another direction, we can never be happy following someone else’s dream. It is so important to follow our own dreams.
He was so miserable following his father’s dream that he would come home two or three nights a week with migraine headaches. One day my husband told me he was experiencing a strange pain and he died of an aortic aneurysm only a fews days later. It always haunted me that I was an Executive Recruiter, but I couldn’t help my own husband. While I couldn’t bring him back, I began to wonder if I could help others not get to the point my husband did by not accessing his true passion. From that question the Faremouth Method was born. This is a system I began to use in my recruiting practice which has helped many individuals to become more successful. I counsel my clients to find their deep rooted passion and to find what they are good at in order to achieve the most satisfactory results in their career. It enables them to stay in a career longer and to be happier in what they choose to do in their daily life.
The Faremouth Method is a five step process to help a person really get into alignment with who they are and what they want to accomplish. My book, “Revolutionary Recruiting,” provides many case studies of people I had worked with successfully using the Faremouth Method. The more I thought about this method and the people I worked with, the more I realized this method really does have a more global application and can be used on more people than just applicants, employers and recruiters.
This five step method can be used by anyone who who wants to maximize their potential and transition into a new self. We have to get into alignment with where we are in our life and on our path right now to be able to assess what it is that we want to accomplish. The Faremouth Method is a step-by-step process that helps us really do a serious inventory of our passions and allows us to have a process available to strategically accomplish our goals and maximize our potential in whatever goal we might have before us. It works! Here at Faremouth and Associates we are so excited about the success of this methodology. We are in the process of bringing out another book soon which will be a workbook, designed to personalize your process of whatever goal you might want to achieve and to assist you in maximizing your potential and achieving your goals.
Most careers demand a minimum of eight hours per day. Many of us give more than that by the time we spend thinking about our work projects and then planning and implementing them in our day jobs. We end up spending more time than we are actually paid for in our designated eight hours. Shouldn’t that time be enjoyable rather than something that gives us a migraine headache or other physical ailment? By finding that perfect career or pathway implementing our passions, we can turn that migraine headache into something inspirational and a driving motivation which brings us joy and satisfaction. A workbook based on the Faremouth Method will enable you to personalize and identify your passion, transforming it into a more emotionally healthy all around life, not only in your career but in your personal goals. The workbook will enable you to achieve your goals with much more fluidity. Wouldn’t it be nice to come home after work feeling more energized and satisfied being in a career which is more uplifting?
We hope you will check out our reviews on Amazon for the first book, “Revolutionary Recruiting,” and we are excited to be able to produce a workbook which will have a more global application for your personal process.
We think our method is a “revolutionary” one. We hope you will too!
Mary Ann is the founder and CEO of Faremouth and Company. As a leader in the national recruiting community and a placement specialist since 1982, Mary Ann knows what it takes to get the job done. She was the 2016 PRESIDENT of Houston Independent Personnel Consultant Group, is a member of the NASPD, NAPCA, the National Association of Personnel Consultants, and is also a highly regarded speaker and writer. Her articles can be found in various industry related publications and she is now an award winning author. Her book, Revolutionary Recruiting, won the Texas Authors Best Book Cover and Best Non-Fiction Education & Self Help Book awards. She founded Jobs: Houston Magazine in 1997, one of the most popular employment magazines in Texas for over 7 years.
