Are there any legal concerns with providing candid references on former employers to potential employees?
THE TABLES HAVE TURNED… A few years ago, the vast majority of executives considering a career move to a new company had some resources available to them to provide basics about a private company, but most of their decision making would be based upon interviews and other communications with a potential employer. Yesterday I receiving a LinkedIn message from someone considering taking a job with a company that I’ve worked for previously (less than two years ago). Thanks to the power of LinkedIn employees now have the ability to “check references” of companies at the same time that the company might be checking their references. This is quite the twist for public and private companies, when executives and even hourly employees might have the ability to gain more knowledge of how a company works before seriously considering an offer. Unfortunately, it will likely take five to ten years before the most notorious companies start to care about their word-of-mouth reputation and its impact w
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