Q: I don’t want to provide my boss as a reference for a job interview. How do I navigate this situation?
A: Sometimes two people are just oil and water. It may not be anyone’s fault … necessarily; it may be that you just don’t really click–or see eye to eye on one thing or another. When that other “eye” happens to be your boss’s, it can make for not only a rocky employment period, but the relationship can become a liability come reference-checking time–as a lukewarm or negative review from a former boss will frequently spike a candidacy. So how does a candidate navigate this situation without compromising his/her candidacy?
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