Diary of a CEO

To be asked for introducing someone's friend or relative to your company or the companies you familiar with is a social issue instead a business issue; today, I handled 2 of these case; one public list company's general manager ask me a favor to introduce her daughter -- who just return from the States to internet related company, I met her father 3 weeks ago and contact her for the first conversation; I need to know what she really want and what's her career map before placing her to any company I know, what surprise me is when we first met, she told me in a very frank way, she don't like my company, so, it's good, the Burdon released, then I asked her good at and found that she followed a designer’s road map and learnt the design in a developing form, for instant, she study architecture first, then move to interior design , after graduating, she pick up the Computer Graphic design; after our conversation, I suggest her to visit one flash animation site and see if she love to be a producer in the company; one week later, she called me with excitement and asked if I can introduce her the flash animation company and would like to know more about this company; today, we met the second time, I invited her to the small studio where 8 peoples crowded themselves in a tiny space, as I am a very good friend of the founder and owner of the company, they explained to her the overall concept and operation about this company; I am not quite sure if this is the idea job, idea place for her to develop in Taiwan, but I think to present the truth is much important then they found that the true won’t there; this is the first case I dealt with today, the other one is apply for our company via my friend , for me, it's not so difficult to open door for anyone who's interested in our company, to me, this is not a pressure. but since I have to talk to HR first. I don't know if they treated as this is a fair game or not, the second thing I can do is to arrange the first interview even if the resume screening shows that he may not reach our standard, but to offer her / he a chance to be interviewed, at least, I did sometime for my friend and I open a door for them; before I do any job introduction, I don't feel like take friendship as pressure and I don't want people who worked with me treated like another pressure; if they are good, then recruit them, if they didn't meet our standard, then honestly tell them. this is what I spend time for in these couple of days.

posted by Roger @ 7/23/2003 11:47:00 下午