We've recently taken on a temp and he keeps talking about how ambitious he is and that he wants to progress in his career. He's not a brilliant performer, but I think if he focussed, he could probably do okay.
Performance aside, the bigger problem is that he just doesn't know how behave appropriately in a work environment and he'll never progress because of that.
Examples include - both verbal and written communications are littered with slang and wearing a hoodie (hood up) on a Skype call. To give you an idea, if Vicky Pollard and Ali G had a child, it would be him. We work in the public sector, so our office isn't highly corporate and we are very diverse, but this person is well outside of our tolerant norms.
I'm a black woman in her 40s who grew up locally to him, so I get it to a certain extent. The problem is that he had no self awareness as to how he comes across and this will hold him back.
He doesn't report to me, but we will be working on a project together soon. I just feel like I want to tell him why he's unlikely to progress.
What would you do?