My how the tables have turned

[Exterous]

A ways back at my first job in my career track I had a terrible manager. Bad at managing people, didn't know how to do the job but thought he did, all the classics. At one point he straight up lied to the CIO (his boss' boss' boss) and threw me under the bus for something I wasn't even involved in to save his own hide. I found out he did that in an all IT meeting when the CIO suddenly started yelling at me about it. The CIO then tried to improperly withhold my bonus. It became a whole thing including my counter HR claim to get my bonus. I won that but my career there was toast.

I posted a manager job for one of my teams and guess who applied? Looks like he was downsized from his last job and is in need of a new one...

 

[brianmanahan]

sounds like it's time to bring him in for an interview

 

[lxskllr]

A veeeery long and rigorous interview. At the end, state that your organization's primary goal is honesty and integrity, and ask him if there's any reason he should be disqualified on those grounds.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I would totally bring him in for an interview even if you don't hire him, that would be hilarious when he realizes you're the one hiring.

Have a small written test as part of the interview with scenarios where candidates pick the best option they would do in that situation, and put the scenario he was involved in as one of the examples, with generic names of course.

 

[marokra]

To make him sweat even more, have someone else handle the interview so that he has a false sense of security. Make sure it's in one of those meeting rooms with a full glass wall facing the hallway/office/whatever. Then just occasionally walk by.