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I had a candidate apply for a role and in his comms with our female recruiter sent a fairly ambiguous response and finished it up with the nail polish emoji. T
by hnbear 2y ago
I had a candidate apply for a role and in his comms with our female recruiter sent a fairly ambiguous response and finished it up with the nail polish emoji.
That definitely ended his candidacy.
Not sure exactly what it meant, but couldn’t think of a good explanation for it.
- ksenzee 2y agoEnding someone’s candidacy over an emoji you don’t understand seems premature at best. I know gay guys who use the nail polish emoji all the time at the end of their sentences, for example. Any chance this guy was gay and just being a bit casual with a recruiter he got along with?
- hnbear 2y agoI wouldn’t want to guess orientation from email or emoji usage. That said, I hadn’t done the comms or calls, she had. That’s also why I commented - emoji usage is very confusing in some instances. Our recruiter took it as a fairly chauvinist comment, but maybe it was meant a different way. They were a marginal candidate, other comms weren’t great, this became one of the final factors. Generally I think emoji usage in comms to a recruiter or hiring manager is risky, regardless of emoji chosen.