ought to I rent an ex?
A reader writes:
My firm is beginning a large and complicated two-year mission. We marketed however after interviews we haven’t discovered an acceptable candidate for the place that’s in all probability most crucial. Somewhat than promote once more given the urgency, we’ve tapping our networks for candidates to interview.
One in every of my exes has the {qualifications} to be thought of, and final I spoke to him (a yr in the past), he was unemployed. We had a three-year relationship. I assumed we had been heading for marriage (he didn’t, which was the precipitating issue and one of many causes we broke up). There was screaming, and we’ve been largely no-contact since, besides just a few instances we’ve run into one another randomly. These conversations have been … not “pleasant” precisely, however cordial. That was 4 years in the past, I’m over it, and he additionally appeared over it after we bumped into one another a yr in the past.
This can be a place I’ll have direct administration over, and must rely fairly closely on as it is going to be on-site for the mission whereas I shall be largely off-site. Ought to I attain out to my ex to submit an utility for this place, or is that this a nasty concept?
I reply this query — and two others — over at Inc. at this time, the place I’m revisiting letters which have been buried within the archives right here from years in the past (and generally updating/increasing my solutions to them). You can learn it right here.
Different questions I’m answering there at this time embody:
- My new colleague as soon as give up a job with me after just a few months
- Is it okay to provide references for 2 individuals making use of for a similar job?
