Starbuck1975
Lifer
- Jan 6, 2005
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You qualified your statement as the accusations coming from a primary or secondary reference.I've been a hiring manager before, and if a primary or secondary reference reported a sexual assault by the candidate, even it it was never prosecuted, I wouldn't even follow up, it would be game over for that candidate. There would be no criminal investigation, there would be opportunity for the candidate to give his side of the story, it would just be over. And every hiring manager I can think of would respond the same way. There's absolutely no reason for a company to risk something like that when there are almost always other candidates that are close to equally qualified without the baggage. You must hang out with some really shitty hiring managers.
Dr. Ford is not a reference.
If I’ve done the due diligence of checking with references, and there are no red flags, I would question the motive of someone not contemporarily associated with the candidate making such accusations.