The IT manager of the organization that you work for has approached you about an open IT position. After phone interviewing 20 candidates, you recommend to the IT manager that the individual you consider most qualified should be invited for a second interview. A day later, you are taken aside by an employee in the IT department and told in vague phrases, accompanied by less ambiguous body language that you should not waste management’s time by sending certain types (nudge-nudge-wink-wink) of candidates for an interview. The intent of the message was clear; if you want to be accepted as a team player with this company, you had better get with the program.
What would you do?
