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Radical Candor: Communication at Work

The 'Oops, Just Kidding' Job Offer 5 | 9

Radical Candor: Communication at Work

Radical Candor

Careers, Relationships, Society & Culture, Business

4.7740 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Kim, Jason and Amy discuss another upsetting trend in the workplace — the “oops, just kidding!” job offer. The team emphasizes the importance of remembering that the people you are hiring are real human beings with loved ones, bills and responsibilities. You’re not trying them on like a pair of shoes you can discard later if they’re not the right fit. It’s important to get hiring right and Radical Candor has a 5-step strategy to set you up for success.Go to the show notes >> Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Radical Canter Podcast. I'm Kim Scott, co-founder of Radical

0:12.7

Candor and author of Radical Cander and Just Work. And I'm Jason Roseoff, CEO and co-founder

0:19.7

of Radical Cander. I'm Amy Sandler, co-founder of Radical Cander.

0:24.7

I'm Amy Sandler, your host for the Radical Cander podcast.

0:32.6

And you may have read with horror as we did here at Radical Cander about another upsetting trend in the workplace.

0:34.3

The oops, just kidding, job offer.

0:37.3

There was a recent article in the Los Angeles

0:39.3

Times where some companies are rescinding job offers and then blaming the economy. And in some cases,

0:46.2

people had accepted these offers. They'd already upended their lives, moved across the country,

0:50.6

only to learn there was no job there. The LA Times writes that this trend is being

0:56.2

blamed on, quote, fears of a recession combined with upheavals in industries such as crypto,

1:02.9

financial services, and tech. So in season three, we had done an episode where we focused on

1:09.4

how to choose a radically candid boss for

1:12.6

job seekers who, along with us, did not want to pay the asshole tax. And so we're going to

1:18.6

look at it from the other perspective today. We're going to focus on how managers can integrate

1:22.9

radical candor into their hiring process so that they can build and sustain great teams. Before we're going

1:29.5

to get into the details of what we found works, what doesn't work when it comes to hiring, Kim and

1:35.6

Jason, are you feeling like there's anything new here in what we're seeing with this rescinding of

1:41.1

offers or is this just another cyclical occurrence with maybe a new

1:45.9

name and a new term? What do you think? I think rescinding of offers is nothing new. I've seen it

1:51.4

happen many, many times, unfortunately. And one recommendation I would make to folks is if you're

1:58.5

going to move across the country, make sure that you put in your

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