Dear Museum-L'ers

Re. John Martinson's comments and Deb Fuller's about timely responses
from prospective employers, I totally agree with their sentiments.

Somewhere, some time ago, someone said to me that the reason the hiring
moguls don't like to reply is because they are afraid of liability
(something in the reply might trigger a discrimination lawsuit or some
other nonsense).  What with our litigious society, that may be
understandable, however, you do need to be careful and diplomatic in your
rejection reply.

But it's just plain bad manners not to give a reply, and let the
interviewee off the jittery hook.  If you don't want to send a written
reply, a verbal notice is just as good.  I don't want to get into
personality things here, because rejecting someone raises some
psychological things within us (one is uncomfortable in telling another
that they just weren't who they were looking for), however, we should
train ourselves to be courteous in these types of replies, and just go
ahead and let people know whether they "are the one."  This way we can
all go our merry way, applying, hiring or rejecting.

May you all have a great weekend!

O


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