Wilson Cole's Podcast From The Road

Wilson Cole, President of Adams, Evens, & Ross (AER) and Samantha Cole, in-house counsel and wearer of many hats for AER, finish their series on the top excuses for back door hires. On top of these podcasts, AER is also hosting a free webinar on the topic of back door hires. If you want more information about the webinar, feel free to send an email to Wilson@aercollections.com. Excuse number 7 is when the company says “we didn’t hire the candidate as an employee, we hired them as a consultant” and excuse number 8 is “we hired them for another position.” These two excuses are different, but at the same time very similar, so Wilson discusses them together. For excuse number 8, Wilson has seen that sometimes it turns out to be an honest mistake due to poor communication or poor processes internally at a company, where a candidate was accidentally hired for another position. Of course he as has also seen where it was not an accident, but a company intentionally trying to avoid paying placement fees. For excus