On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 01:23:36PM -0700, Esther Schindler spake thusly: > "You'll be very lucky to get Joe to work for you." (Which takes > careful parsing...) > and > "If this is the sort of person you're looking for, then he'll do > admirably." (Which says nothing. Dramatcially.)
Excellent examples of "damned by faint praise". Always check your job references yourself and make sure they are ok with actually saying legitimately good things before giving them out. All of the career advice people say this. Which makes me wonder: Why does anyone request references if the applicant has made sure they are all pre-cooked? The practical effect seems to be just to find those people who fail to check their references. That is valuable I suppose. So let's turn this around another way: When you really do know that someone is a good hire and want to see them succeed what sorts of things do you say without sounding like a paid spokesman? And suppose this person has a couple minor quirks (everyone does) but that you would be willing to work with, how do you phrase those? Just omit them? -- Tracy Reed http://tracyreed.org
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