Comments on: Culture, Attitude, Aptitude, Personality. Do You Know the Difference? https://www.futurethink.com.sg/culture-attitude-aptitude-personality-do-you-know-the-difference/ People. Passion. Performance Mon, 13 Oct 2014 23:00:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Admin https://www.futurethink.com.sg/culture-attitude-aptitude-personality-do-you-know-the-difference/#comment-15 Mon, 13 Oct 2014 01:48:02 +0000 http://www.futurethink.com.sg/?p=1280#comment-15 In reply to Francisco Fernandes.

Hi Francisco,

Thank you very much for your comments. Yes, I absolutely agree with you that many have confused Attitude and Aptitude. It is important to know the difference between the two. Hiring managers have for a long time focused only on Attitude, however through my experience over the last 2 decades, I have learnt that Attitude is not Aptitude, and we need to differentiate between the two. You can hire someone with great Attitude but if this person has low aptitude to learn on the job, you will still have a problem on your hands.

I will be addressing each of these attributes over the next few weeks. Next week I will talk about ATTITUDE.

So please do check back here again next week for my next article/post.
And please continue to post your comments and insights so everyone can learn from you too!

Steven

]]> By: Francisco Fernandes https://www.futurethink.com.sg/culture-attitude-aptitude-personality-do-you-know-the-difference/#comment-14 Sun, 12 Oct 2014 17:57:24 +0000 http://www.futurethink.com.sg/?p=1280#comment-14 This exactly what I have been thinking all along. In the middle east I have been working for more than 18 years now and most hiring managers are talking the same thing and their selection criteria is attitude and for them aptitude is irrelevant than I am thinking why one has to go to professional colleges get trained on specific skills and specialize in certain areas if anyone with a great attitude can learn everything. This looks totally silly as hiring managers think skills can be thought or learned but attitude or personality cannot be developed, which is absolutely wrong, but the majority of the mindset of hiring managers are looking or focusing only on attitude irrespective of the aptitude of the candidate. I am happy I found someone who has joined my debate and thank you very much for taking up this topic of attitude, aptitude, personality and culture which many people around the world are confused and are giving their own flavor and this comes specially from the west and the rest try to follow even if it is not 100% right.

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