What ‘Angry Birds’ Can Teach You About Getting Hired
PART 2 (Are YOU the ‘Red Bird’?)

By Skip Freeman, personalbrandingblog.com

Those bouncy, chirpy, flipping birds . . . what’s got them going so and why do we care? The pigs have taken the birds’ eggs and are holding them in their lair, which is surrounded by various barriers to prevent entry. Our mission is to get the eggs back. To do so (or so it seems at first), we simply catapult the birds toward the pig’s lair with a slingshot, aiming to break down the barriers, “pop” the various pigs, get to the next level and ultimately rescue the eggs.

Let’s return to the question asked in Part 1 of this installment: What can the wildly popular online game “Angry Birds” (by Rovio Mobile) teach us about getting hired? As we have explored in previous blogs, hiring is in every sense of the word a game (read “Is Hiring a Game, Yes it Is!”), and, to review, all games have seven characteristics in common:

•    Payoffs
•    Players
•    Rules
•    Strategy
•    Uncertainty
•    Common knowledge
•    Uncommon knowledge