An incident comes to mind that is “Halloweenish”
A candidate came into my office with an outstanding resume and exceptional personal presentation. He had a stable background in food and beverage management with a foundation in the culinary arts. He was the kind if candidate recruiters in our industry proverbially drool over. I sent him out on an interview that very afternoon and the client company absolutely loved him and was ready to add him to their staff. As is our policy, we began to do the reference checks prior to an offer being extended. We used the names he had supplied to us when he was at our offices. The first two were outstanding references…but the third. They put us on hold when we asked the Human Resources Manager (who’s direct line he had supplied) about him. A few minutes later an obviously panicked Doctor came on the line and asked us who we were and if we knew where the candidate was. Within minutes members of the Atlanta Police Department were at our offices asking for all of the information that we had on the man. Apparently he had escaped from a state mental facility for the criminally insane the previous day where he was being held for a particularly gruesome crime that involved body dismemberment. We never heard from him again or if the authorities found him and he certainly did not get the job with our client company. I wonder where he is working today….
While this didn’t happen on Halloween…it certainly gave us some creepy hard to get to sleep nights.
