My team has a summer interm programme and one of the interns is the daughter of an important client of ours. A colleague encouraged her to apply but she was selected for the programe "blind" by our HR department who had no idea she was related to a client. However HR were told about her connection after she was accepted.
She has not done well enough on our programme to be offered a chance to interview for a permanent job. HR told us about this before they told her. My colleague now wants to sit down with her father and explain to him why she was not chosen and give him some recommendations for how she might improve her skills and CV to get a job in the future (not necessarily with us).
The woman is 25 years old. I am very uncomfortable with the idea that we should be talking to her father about matters that are personal to her. There is no suggestion that her permission will be asked. Nobody seems to get this, and I have a feeling that the old blokes that run our team still see her as some sort of schoolgirl. They feel that they will be doing a client a favour by giving him this information, plus of course they want to avoid him being pissed off about the rejection by giving him an explanation to show that it was justified in the circumstances.
I am thinking of raising my concerns with HR. Are they justifed?
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JessieMcJessie · 13/08/2014 04:20
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