5 things you can do at your peril while changing jobs.

“You are free to do whatever you like. You need only face the consequences”
-a quote from Sheldon Kopp’s Escatological Laundry list-Quote 41

The above quote perfectly fits for most situations in our lives. But I feel it fits more than perfectly to the hiring scenario. I have been running a placement firm for over 3years now. I have handled a variety of recruitment assignments. From a consultant or hiring manager’s perspective I record my views here on 5 things that should be avoided while changing jobs.

No shows for Interview:

You straight away set an unprofessional tone about yourself. You may have solid reasons for not turning up for an interview. But you have done enough damage to yourself. Avoid this. If this is so unavoidable that you can’t show up for the interview, better call up the consultant or the interviewing manager and speak to them. That will control the damage to your professional image quite a bit.

No show on date of joining:

This is the most frustrating part in the entire recruitment process. You have a choice between accepting and declining the offer. After accepting the offer, during the intervening notice period the temptation to go after a few more offers speaks about the poor personal ethic of the individual. Once again what you do shows you in a very poor professional image.

No show after few days of work:

Simply absconding….once again a frustrating experience for the recruting organisation. But Imagine. We are in the world of twitter and facebook Damage can be done quite rapidly.

Hiding employment details:

It could be like working briefly for some organisation and not mentioning them in your CV. You can run but you simply cannot hide in this online world…your online social profile will reveal cracks whatever you are trying to hide and it will showup somewhere easily. Smart managers can discover this like a breeze.

Inaccurate CV and CTC information:

Either by mistake or by choice inaccuracies in your CV or your compensation details does not go down well with hirers. In one of the recent placement we did with a client, the candidate forgot to mention the retention bonus he receives every year while computing his current CTC. But the client did not take it lightly as it upsets their plans and the whole offer had to be reworked. In this case the candidate was lucky to be still in favor. Usually hiring organisations do not move forward when the prospective candidates bring up any last minute surprises like this.

You may have an entirely different view of being wronged by an organisation during your hiring process. I would like to see your comments and views here.

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