What ‘Angry Birds’ Can Teach You About Getting Hired
PART 4 (Become the ‘Yellow Bird’!)

By Skip Freeman, personalbrandingblog.com

Editor’s Note: This is the fourth in a series of blogs in which author of the best-selling “Headhunter” Hiring Secrets: The Rules of the Hiring Game Have Changed . . . Forever! and professional “headhunter” Skip Freeman draws an analogy between “Angry Birds,” the wildly popular online game, and another, far more important game—the hiring game. Previous blogs in this series are: The Pig’s Lair (Part I); Are YOU the ‘Red Bird’? (Part II); and How to Become MORE than just the ‘RED BIRD’ (Part III).

At the end of Part III of this blog series, I said that the next installment (this one) would consider the characteristics of the “blue bird.” But just this week I encountered a situation that so clearly illustrated the necessity for quickly moving beyond being just the “red bird” and adopting the characteristics of the “yellow bird” that I simply had to postpone the “blue bird” until the next installment.

For those of you who are “Angry Birds” afficionados, you may already know the characteristics of the “yellow bird”; for those of you who are not, here are those characteristics:

The “YELLOW BIRD,” when tapped, flies off at warp speed, crashing through the barriers the pigs have set up to keep you from getting the egg.

In other words, unlike the “red bird,” who merely “loads” himself into the “sling shot” and “fires” himself off willy-nilly, HOPING to crash through the barriers the pigs have set up, the “yellow bird” is wily, aggressive, assertive and knows precisely how to break through the barrier and attain his desired goal!