From the course: Managing Your Career: Early Career
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Align mission and values
From the course: Managing Your Career: Early Career
Align mission and values
- An organization's mission is only as good as how well their employees can bring it to life. Aligning your résumé, cover letter, and answers to interview questions with the mission and values of the organization can give you an edge over other candidates. According to Mackenzie White Paper, organizations achieve real alignment when strategy, goals, and meaningful purpose reinforce one another and give an organization an advantage. In one study, they found this alignment allowed for its people to focus on simply doing their work, rather than deciding on what to do. This is supported by research done at the Harvard Business School. They found that organizations that could nurture employees through meaningful work, and aligning it to their job tasks, had the strongest organizations. There are a few simple techniques to research and understand the mission and values of an organization so that you can work them into your materials. The first step is to review their vision, mission, and…
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