how ought to I reply to networkers looking for assist I can’t supply?
A reader writes:
I’m one of many fortunate few who haven’t been drastically affected by layoffs in my area. Whereas I’m working from residence, I’m nonetheless working. I work in an business that’s pretty nicely insulated, contemplating the circumstances.
I’ve a buddy who has been laid off from their job in a really completely different subject. This buddy emailed me the opposite day asking me if I had any leads on jobs that they might apply to. The one individual I do know in a subject anyplace near theirs is in the identical place, shedding staff. I do not know what to say to this individual in response. Are you able to assist?
I reply this query — and three others — over at Inc. right this moment, the place I’m revisiting letters which were buried within the archives right here from years in the past (and generally updating/increasing my solutions to them). You can learn it right here.
Different questions I’m answering there right this moment embody:
- Rejecting a candidate because of our previous private historical past
- My worker tells us far more than we want about his schedule
- Colleague cc’s herself on each electronic mail she sends
