Getting a Friend a Job

[nageov3t]

anyone have any experience with this?

there's a position opening up in my department in a few weeks, and I've been considering recomending a friend of mine for the position. I feel bad for the guy, which was one of my big motivations in thinking about him; he graduated with a CS degree at the same time I graduated with my English Lit degree, yet since graduation, he's been unable to find a decent job and has been working as a short order cook for the past few months.

my big reservation is that while I know and love the guy (we lived together for a year... he's just about like the brother I never had), and I know that he has the skills to do the job well, I've never worked with him before.

Some people act really differently in a work enviornment than they do in a more relaxed setting. Plus, there's the fact that I've only been here 6 months; if I recomended him and he fvcked up, that'd look really badly on me.


What do you think? Give into friendship and recomend him, or play it safe and don't even tell him about the opening? Share some of your experiences with me so I might know what to expect

 

[StageLeft]

Hard call. I wouldn't recommend a friend who's a useless tit. It just reflects poorly on me. If he's ok, and I simply don't know how he'll be, I'd recommend him. Do him a favour

 

[Ness]

If you don't know his work habits, then you should NOT vouch for him. A recommendation from you will make you look very poor if he winds up being a bad worker.


Tell him to put in an application or whatever and to use you as a reference if he'd like... but if your boss comes to you and asks about him tell the truth, say he's your friend, he's a great person, someone that you never regret being around, blah blah blah, but you've never worked with him so you can't vouch for his work habits.

Besides, an employer can get a general idea of most people's habits from an interview or two.

If he doesn't get the job he can't really hold it against you because he probably wouldn't have had a SHOT at the job if you didn't tell him.