A Great Watch for HR, Hiring Managers & Recruiters

Maid, a one season Netflix show is about a young mom trying to find her way out of poverty and emotional abuse. Loosely based on a true story written by Stephanie Land it offers a powerful illustration of how people can overlook one another for the wrong reasons. My thirteen year old recommended we watch and so we did. It’s been nominated for a ton of awards and in our house we found it to be binge worthy.

Without giving up the plot, the storyline between Regina, the wonderful Anika Noni Rose who plays an affluent corporate attorney and Alex, played by Margaret Qualley, depict how two people misconstrue the other person’s life and experience because they only see what they want to see in their respective surface-lives.

As far out as this may sound, I could see Maid used as an HR/team training tool as fresh, alternative way to look beyond a candidate’s CV to see what is there, but doesn’t appear to have checked all the ‘right’ boxes. As in the right school, right job experience, right socio-economic profile. Instead we choose to see a human being in their entirety, bringing a wealth of experience, good and bad, that add up to something more rich and meaningful than checking all the right boxes.

Maid gives us that story, a story about how our lives are changed for the better when we do that - when we look beyond what we think we know and understand.