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\"open.letter.lori\"<\/a>When we first met, there was so much promise. You said I had everything you were looking for, and I saw the same in you.\u00a0 Our past experiences seemed to have woven themselves together into a red carpet that led you straight to me. It only took our meeting a few times to know it was meant to be, and we set the date for just a few short weeks into the future.\u00a0 But just a few days before the Big Day, you changed your mind. You decided not to take the job, even though you had already accepted it.<\/p>\n

I wish I could say you were the first one, but unfortunately that\u2019s not so.\u00a0 I\u2019ve encountered a few others like you in the past, who made their way to the top of the list through a series of competitive interviews and lunchtime conversations about \u201cfit\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 We made the job offer, set a start date, talked about the future, and let the whole team know about them and how their professional experience would round out our skill set and make us all better.\u00a0 And then the phone call comes to say that she\u2019s changed her mind, or he\u2019s gotten a better offer from his present employer, or she just flat out has cold feet and can\u2019t make the jump.\u00a0 While these are all heart-breakers, some are worse than others: Once, I worked with a new manager for an entire week, only to have him leave a note in the staff lounge to announce his resignation.\u00a0\u00a0 Turned out he hadn\u2019t actually resigned from his prior agency \u2013 he\u2019d taken a week of vacation to give my agency a test run. \u00a0True story.<\/p>\n

An Open Letter to My (Almost) Colleague<\/h2>\n

Here\u2019s the problem. First of all, we have spent a significant amount of time and yes even money to get to the point of making you a job offer.\u00a0 In most public agencies, it isn\u2019t a foregone conclusion that a given vacancy will be filled at all; if we are making the effort to recruit and select carefully, it\u2019s because this position is mission critical. If you weren\u2019t sure you were ready to move, or if our agency was the best place for you to work, you shouldn\u2019t have let your application get this far along in our process.\u00a0 Withdrawing after the first interview would have been fine, but at this late in the game it was just unprofessional and some would say unethical. Frankly, after the shock wore off, we\u2019re left feeling like perhaps we dodged a bullet.\u00a0 That may be good for us, but it\u2019s not good for your professional reputation in a government world that is very small indeed.<\/p>\n

So, we\u2019re both moving on. I hope you\u2019ve grown through this and will make better decisions in the future. \u00a0As for me, I\u2019ll keep looking for the right one, but maybe a little wary until he actually arrives on that first day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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