Timeline for Does referring a poor candidate look bad on me?
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| Jan 21, 2020 at 15:02 | comment | added | xLeitix | @Hilmar OP is talking about long-term friends. | |
| Jan 21, 2020 at 12:11 | comment | added | Hilmar | @xLeitix: who is talking about long term friends? I got almost all my referral requests from former colleagues from previous companies I worked at. | |
| Jan 20, 2020 at 14:18 | comment | added | xLeitix | "Neutral or even negative referrals are still useful." Only if you can live with the possibility of giving a long-term friend the kiss of death in your company. Because if you say something like "not super reliably to work with and not great at follow through" about a person they know you are friends with, most hiring managers will stay far away. | |
| Jan 17, 2020 at 22:10 | comment | added | bob | After all you might hurt their case, and perhaps unjustly so. In that case, no referral is actually better (and more just) than giving a referral that badmouths the person. So actually I don't think is answer is the best advice unfortunately. | |
| Jan 17, 2020 at 22:09 | comment | added | bob | The problem with this answer is that OP said: "I've never worked with them so for all I know, they might be the next key player for the company". So it's not necessarily accurate to say "but was not super reliably to work with". And as OP mentions, they don't know how the referrees will be on the job. They may be laid back and disorganized in normal life, and a go-getter on the job. Or not. So I think giving negative info is dangerous unless its something certain to transfer to the workplace. Though in that case, why give the referral at all? That seems like sabotaging friends or family. | |
| Jan 17, 2020 at 21:13 | comment | added | Kat | This is the right answer. If your company is struggling to get enough applicants, they may appreciate you steering people their way and giving any feedback you can about them. I referred someone I knew personally but not professionally, and I was honest about what I knew about the person (and how I couldn't vouch for their technical abilities or performance in any way). They were happy with the referral regardless, because they were really struggling to fill the position. | |
| Jan 17, 2020 at 14:36 | comment | added | ventsyv | Best answer.I would refer the best candidates first though, unless the company is doing a massive amount of hiring... | |
| Jan 17, 2020 at 9:06 | history | answered | Hilmar | CC BY-SA 4.0 |