An organization you work for that helps people find jobs, holds a job fair. As a placement specialist for the organization you invite your good employers to participate. One employer in particular agrees and comes and solicits candidates for their jobs. The employer instructs candidates to fill out the application and return it to them before they leave, or to take it to their location and drop it off as the application is quite lengthy.
Job fair turnout is low. The employer leaves right when the job fair ends with no instructions to you on what to do with any late applications, or telling you that they are expecting someone to turn any in. One job seeker, who had grabbed a blank application and filled it out, returns it the next day by slipping it under your office door, before the office open, with a generic note (not addressed to anyone) to get the application to that employer. There is no further follow up from that applicant that day.
You glance at the application and it is complete but not completely legible. You know the candidate from them dealing with your office but you have not dealt with them directly. The candidate is clearly not qualified for the position being applied for. Since this is a good employer that might be able to hire several of your candidates in the future, do you make the effort to get the employer this candidate's application and let them deal with logging it, saving it, etc., or does it mysteriously get thrown into the trash since the job seeker didn't follow the employer's directions on returning it to them, and the employer did not leave you any instructions on how to deal with any applications left in your office?
What do you do?
Thanks for reading!
Ev
"A Heck of A Nice Guy
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