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Re:Potential Employer Cancels Return Flight by tyingq on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @12:18PM (#18922667)
Personally, I would not have cancelled the flight under any circumstances. Whatever prompted that action is probably a good indicator that having the candidate far away is a good idea. As opposed to keeping them local and angry.

I'd take it as a lesson learned to shore up screening before flying anyone in.

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Re:Potential Employer Cancels Return Flight by gregmac on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @01:23PM (#18923414)
> I'd take it as a lesson learned to shore up screening before flying anyone in.

Yep. Whoever made the decision to fly them out in the first place is now going to live with that on their track record, and rightfully be questioned whenever they want to spend money on a candidate: "Remember the $xxxx we wasted on that other candidate? What did you do differently this time to be sure we don't repeat that situation?"

Assuming this is a company of any size, the fact it was an actual tangible expense (and not just employee time) will probably make this scrutiny come from more and/or higher places in the management chain, because now more departments are involved.

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