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Given the fast-changing world of business, hiring managers “want to look for growth mindset,” says Aneesh Raman, a vice president and workforce expert at LinkedIn. “This is the new degree, the way that you’ve been looking for a Harvard degree.”
The term growth mindset , coined by psychologist Carol Dweck, is the idea that you can continue to improve your abilities, talents and knowledge over time by learning through new experiences. The opposite is having a fixed mindset that you can’t improve on your skills.
How you respond to feedback is especially important .“Feedback can help you identify your blind spots, so you can shift or change how you’re showing up in certain work situations. With a growth mindset, you will see those blind spots as things that are within your control to improve.”
And it could give you an advantage in the hiring market. To demonstrate a growth mindset in an interview, express your enthusiasm for learning on the job and working with the manager to grow as a valuable team member.
“You’ve got to get excited about learning as an individual,” Raman says. “The biggest competitive differentiator a young grad can have is internalizing the idea that they’re going to be learning for the rest of their life and getting excited about it.”
