Screened Before An Offer

Anonymous

December 8,2023 at 11:56PM UTC

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Screened Before An Offer

I’m interviewing for a new role, it’s a US firm with consultants in Australia. The industry here is small and I woke up this morning to see that a mutual colleague and the consultant I interviewed with had both viewed my LinkedIn profile. I am concerned, as I haven’t told anyone that I have applied for this role but it seems that this mutual acquaintance been told. The mutual acquaintance also came up in the interview so I know that this isn’t a coincidence. I am shocked. Reference checks are one thing, being backgrounded is something else. What do I say / do? I do feel like I should raise this with HR at the right time and say that I was surprised to see what I saw. And remind them that the industry here is small.

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AnonymousDecember 9,2023 at 2:25PM UTC
It may be a coincidence. It may be due diligence. It is one thing for a hiring manager to reach out to their network when there are mutual acquaintances, but it is not okay if that person works for the same company as a prospect. It might not hurt to let the mutual acquaintance know through some conversation that their name came up when talking to someone else in the industry. Are you worried about what she might say about you? Why would you consider going to HR with this? I doubt there is any written policy about checking the LI profile of colleagues. If anyone is a problem here, it is the person you interviewed with going to someone within your own company. If you talk with your mutual acquaintance and she tells you that the person called and you have a decent relationship, you can ask her to keep it quiet for the time being.
I understand the small town/small industry places where everybody knows everybody else, so if that is the case, realize that if you are looking, everybody will likely know. When I moved to a small mid-western town as an associate pastor, complete strangers asked me about my new puppy. It was then I realized that my life was under a microscope and everybody knew everything there was to know about it (some things I didn't even know - LOL).

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