Timeline for Is it OK to recommend an essential colleague from a previous job?
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| Jun 17, 2017 at 7:02 | comment | added | FooTheBar | @Matthew: Your comment is wrong on so many levels, It's useless to really argue against it. | |
| Jun 17, 2017 at 0:24 | comment | added | Matthew Read | @FooBar Do you believe in slavery? I'm not sure what else to call the idea that you can own another person's abilities. A person's skills are not a trade secret unless you're in the slave trade. | |
| S Jun 16, 2017 at 20:41 | history | suggested | FreeMan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 16, 2017 at 15:03 | comment | added | Delioth | @FooBar No, but it's definitely not within my rights to tell my employees they can't tell others their skills. If it were, it would be impossible to job hunt while they worked at my company. That can lead to miserable workers (since they can't find a new job, and miserable workers don't do good work), or it can lead to people jumping ship the moment things look like they could use a new job (since they have to be out of this one to look at any others). It'd be like me not being able to tell you I can code in Python, because it might be a "trade secret" that some employees know Python. | |
| Jun 16, 2017 at 14:16 | comment | added | Bernhard Barker | @FooBar That's a ridiculous argument. Recommending one former coworker who'd be a particularly good fit for a role (possibly after having discussed it with said coworker) is nowhere close to giving someone a list of all your former coworkers with their qualifications. | |
| Jun 16, 2017 at 14:10 | comment | added | Victor Zakharov | @FooBar: Number of staff and competencies are listed on LinkedIn, freely available for anyone with 30/mo sub. If it was a trade secret, LinkedIn would cease to exist. | |
| Jun 16, 2017 at 13:54 | comment | added | FooTheBar | If you had a company, would you give a competitor a list of your employees with their respective skills? | |
| Jun 16, 2017 at 12:46 | comment | added | Seth R | "Do you know anyone who has these qualifications?" "Yes, you should talk to Joe Smith, I'll get you his number." That's not disclosing any trade secrets. | |
| Jun 16, 2017 at 12:07 | comment | added | FooTheBar | Do you put the name and qualifications of your co-workers on your resume? | |
| Jun 16, 2017 at 12:01 | comment | added | Blrfl | @FooBar OP's not providing a full data dump on the entire company's staff, he's recommending one competent person who works there. If all or any of that information is considered a trade secret, then nothing anyone puts on a resume about prior employment should be there. | |
| S Jun 16, 2017 at 11:25 | history | suggested | Søren D. Ptæus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 16, 2017 at 10:39 | comment | added | FooTheBar | I do not think that they need a specific clause in the contract as it is (most likely) already covered by other clauses. They most likely say something that he may no disclose trade secrets and this information is a trade secret. You can't expect them to provide an exhaustive list of things he may not disclose. | |
| Jun 16, 2017 at 10:30 | comment | added | Leon | @FooBar if previous company doesnt care about this information going outside their firm, they ll have clauses in contracts to specifically address this. If they dont for whatever reason, then that means they dont care for that information. Also, if you read again the OP is the consulant that worked with both firms, said firms arent necessarily in the same area of interest so a non-compete clause may even be irrelevant. | |
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| Jun 16, 2017 at 10:02 | comment | added | FooTheBar | But he is providing information that he got while working at the former company. I am quite sure that the number of staff and their competencies and training could be considered a trade secret of this company. | |
| Jun 16, 2017 at 8:48 | history | answered | Rolexel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |