Tag: rescind
Another exploding job offer
You accepted the job. You passed the drug test and cleared the background check. They gave you a start date and booked your training. You quit your old job. You started moving your family and household. Then the employer dropped a bomb.
Behind the scenes of a rescinded job offer
A rescinded job offer usually reveals that a company’s hiring process lacks integrity, and that HR does not follow a critical path when hiring.
The Bad-Business Job Offer: Negotiating not allowed!
Hiring managers are less and less likely to understand even the most fundamental rules of engagement with job applicants. They do stupid things that cost their company money and good hires. Has this ever cost you a job?
Protect Your Job: Don’t give notice when accepting a new job
Rescinded job offers are frighteningly common, so consider a hedge: Don’t give notice to your employer when you get a new job offer, in case the new offer goes south. Just quit. If HR managers don’t like this advice, they should call on their brethren to stop rescinding job offers.
Protect yourself from exploding job offers
Has an employer ever misled you with a job offer that was no job offer at all? Ever quit your old job to take a new job that… disappeared? Was it the employer’s fault entirely… or did you jump the gun without having the offer in writing?