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The Red Cases — Ethics Versus Skills
A brilliant hire with a compromised record. What does a company do when the CV is impeccable and the conduct is not? A caselet on the trade-off nobody wants to name.
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Every hiring manager eventually meets the candidate who is genuinely excellent and quietly compromised. The skills are real. So is the red flag.
This caselet sits with that discomfort rather than resolving it cheaply: what the record actually said, how the panel argued it, and what the company decided when talent and integrity pulled in opposite directions.
Written as part of iScreening Talks, a caselet newsletter I create and write for a background verification company.
