Career Management Tips – Smart Lemming – Career Management Guide

As a manager, what’s the appropriate response to someone that’s declined your job offer? Does it matter how you end the interaction? How do mend broken work relationships after time and space has passed?

If you’re recruiting from your former employer, what problems can you expect? What happens if you’re trying to recruit more than one former colleague at a time? How do you keep the communication lines open when your candidate receives a counter offer from their employer?

How do recruiters identify candidates for their clients for executive level positions?

Does poaching as a recruitment tactic create difficult situations? Is an innocent call from a former boss, really an innocent reconnection, when you’re in the process of poaching from a precious employer? How do we get over anger at a former boss? Why does understanding and forgiveness matter?

Why do new executives bring in their own team when come into a company? Is it easy to get over the hurt and anger of being severed from one of your favorite employers? Does time heal those old wounds of betrayal?

August 21, 2005 When I got back into the office on Friday morning, the revised offer letter still hadn’t been sent from our Controller to Jonathan for my Marketing Manager position. Jonathan had emailed once on Thursday and during lunch on Friday letting me know he still hadn’t received it, but that he would check [...]

August 18, 2005 The Controller’s out. The CEO’s out. Who’s sending the offer letter? Jonathan didn’t get his updated offer letter yesterday as we promised. The Controller, who prepares all offers, was still out on vacation. Tom is out of the office until Tuesday. I had to call Jonathan to let him know he wouldn’t [...]

August 17, 2005 Ever have an uneasy feeling as if things won’t go the way you want them to? That was the feeling I was having over the weekend and this morning. Jonathan finally contacted Tom during lunch to inform us that for family reasons, he couldn’t accept the offer. Jonathan wasn’t willing to move [...]