
A Facebook page or any kind of online fan club is the new way to recruit. Where will you get the Facebook page I wrote about? That's easy. We wish you every success in your career and all of your adventures. If you're interested in staying connected to Acme, I invite you to join our Facebook community at (xxx). This job is not a good fit, but we'd love to stay in touch with you. We appreciate the time you invested in responding to our job ad. Thanks very much for the resume you sent us. Everyone who responds to a posted job ad deserves a kind, human response like this: You were not raised to be rude and thoughtless. They deserve to have an answer from you, not a wimpy auto-response saying "Your materials have been received. It's horribly ill-bred and impolite to simply go silent.

If you decline to interview a person after receiving a resume or job application, you can send that message via email. If the conclusion is that no, this is not a great fit and the offer is going to someone else, your candidates require a careful touch and human empathy in the 'letdown' process. All of them came on the interview with the expectation that the job might be a fit for them. Some of them may have sent you careful thank-you letters. On top of that, each one of them took the time to research your company, prepare for the interview, dress nicely, take time out of their day and expend considerable mental and emotional energy in you and your job opportunity.

The other candidates, the ones who aren't getting a job offer, will have to wait a few days or up to a week to get their eventual "no thanks" message. You wouldn't stoop to that sort of bullying behavior. Why would you want a thoughtful and mature person to make a major life decision quickly, much less under pressure? That's a strong-arm tactic employed by fearful weenies who want to wield their power. I advise job-seekers to run away from employers who try to pressure them into accepting an offer in two or three days. That being said, you must give your top candidate several days to consider your offer. If your first choice candidate declines your offer, you will go to your second-favorite candidate. In 2019, it was ranked by Slate as one of the 50 best nonfiction books of the past 25 years.You have to get an acceptance of the offer you extend to the candidate you choose, before letting the other candidates down gently. The book was featured as one of the first Brotherhood 2.0 book club books. In essence, Gourevitch's story reduces the butchery to the tale of bad guys and good guys, innocent victims and avatars of hate. The absence of attention to the history of the country creates a portrait of a genocide that is insensitive to the complexity of the circumstances. It is one thing to describe the horror, another to explain the motivations that occasioned the carnage. What is missing from Gourevitch's account is the how and why of the killings. Polk Award for Foreign Reporting.Īfricanist René Lemarchand criticizes the book:

This book won numerous awards, including the 1998 National Book Critics Circle award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the 1999 Guardian First Book Award and the George K.

The book not only explains the genocide's peak in 1994, but the history of Rwanda leading up to the major events. Ntakirutimana was eventually convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Gourevitch accused Ntakirutimana of aiding the killings that happened in the complex the next day. The title comes from an April 15, 1994, letter written to Pastor Elizaphan Ntakirutimana, president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church's operations in western Rwanda, by seven Adventist pastors who had taken refuge with other Tutsis in an Adventist hospital in the locality of Mugonero in Kibuye prefecture. Gourevitch retells survivors' stories, and reflects on the meaning of the genocide. The book describes Gourevitch's travels in Rwanda after the Rwandan genocide, in which he interviews survivors and gathers information.
