how can I reject former coworkers making use of for jobs with me?
A reader writes:
A number of previous coworkers have reached out to me on LinkedIn asking a few job posting at my firm. The one factor is … they don’t know that I’m the hiring supervisor for the position, and they’re under-qualified. I already know I might not rent them for the place.
I’ve good relationships with them from my prior jobs, and I’m positive if I inform them the position is on my staff they are going to really feel they’ve a greater likelihood on the place, despite the fact that that isn’t the case. However it’s powerful on the market proper now with the financial system and I do know no less than certainly one of them was lately laid off. I’m apprehensive they might take rejection personally.
How do I strategy this? I don’t wish to discourage them, however I additionally don’t wish to mislead them. I’d ideally wish to protect the relationships within the course of.
I reply this query — and two others — over at Inc. right now, 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 right now embrace:
- My worker made an anti-Semitic joke in a gathering
- Can I ask my workplace to cease saying pregnancies at employees conferences?
