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Your friend has institutional knowledge, education and potential drive to get out of his career slump. A CS degree in a helpdesk job is a misalignment of resou
by bigohms 15y ago
Your friend has institutional knowledge, education and potential drive to get out of his career slump. A CS degree in a helpdesk job is a misalignment of resources and a risk to the overall motivation of the team. Help him realize his goals and give him a chance. Go grab coffee. Have a heart to heart discussion with him. Ask him what he wants. Tell him what you have. Be very clear on your expectations of him and that you are laying your career on the line by choosing to hire him. Make it clear that there needs to be a period of 60 days to make sure this is the right fit for everyone. Ask him for an updated resume. Use these points to justify your decision to hire and make a decision. Utilize your new hire to the max to offload some of your work and give him a trial by fire to catch up. If anyone second guesses your decision, back it up with the points here.
- sc68cal 15y ago>Utilize your new hire to the max to offload some of your work and give him a trial by fire to catch up This is an excellent suggestion. Thank you!
- AppSec 15y agoYou definitely MUST have that heart to heart conversation with him. You should also spell out what is expected over that 60 day time frame. Make sure that the goals are well defined and can be checked off. You both need to agree on what is reasonable. I'm hesitant to agree with throwing him in to the fire, because if you put him in a position to fail, that's going to hurt him and your friendship. I believe that 60 (or 90) day checklist is where you can come to an agreement on what a reasonable "trial by fire" is.