The Reference
What do you say?
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The Reference
A friend asks you to be a referee for a job she badly needs. You've worked with her. She's warm, funny, and unreliable in ways that landed on other people. The employer calls and asks the direct question: would you hire her again?
What do you say?
Then ask
- If she doesn't get it and suspects you, would you tell her the truth?
- Does she deserve the honesty, or does the stranger who'd have to work with her?
- Has anyone ever vouched for you when they shouldn't have?
The classics and some new ones. A scenario, the question it forces, and the follow-ups that make it bite.