Comment by Rick on October 21, 2010 at 9:51am

Great post Jerry, give his parents a call…. great parenting and great actions by the young individual mentioned needs to be recognized and celebrated. I coach youth basketball for a private school that all 4 of my boys attend/ed. This past year we had an exceptional team, not necessarily in the wins in loss columns but in the way that these young men acted on and off the court. In all my years of coaching, no other team has compared to this particular team, it gives you hope for the next generation coming up. Far too often our society focuses on negative actions or gives credit for bad behavior, (watch MTV for a few minutes you will get the picture). We need to give as much positive reinforcement for great behavior as possible.

Rick

Comment by Rayanne on October 21, 2010 at 7:16pm

Just because you do good things, doesn't make you a good person or the right fit.

Comment by Sandra McCartt on October 21, 2010 at 8:00pm

I had to smile when i read this. I had a candidate that presented exactly the way this kid has. I was as excited about him as you are about this one. In fact i almost sent you an email asking if he was a web developer. To make a painful story short. My Eagle Scout with the big GPA, several mission trips a new cute little wife and dandy references got canned three weeks after he was hired for logging about 54 hours on porn sites at the office. Not implying that yours has a problem but i learned the uh, hard way that all that glitters is not always gold. If there is an Eagle Scout with a raging case of porncreep i would of course find him and move him half way across the country. Don't ask me what i said to him when he called me to help him find another job because...in his own words..He was not a personality fit.

Comment by Rayanne on October 21, 2010 at 8:42pm

My point, exactly.

Comment by Maureen Sharib on October 22, 2010 at 6:22am

I'd still call his parents.

Comment by Maureen Sharib on October 22, 2010 at 6:58am

There's a saying "round these parts (SW OH) that I 'magine is probably said 'round your parts too:

"The bigger the cross the bigger the crook."

Talking about character and striking (somewhat) a blow for porn at the same time, I have an example that happens also to be home-grown.
Charles Keatinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Keating

Not zakly home-grown but close: Larry Flynt
They even made a movie about it. It weren't half-bad.

But then, I don't think much (acting) that Woody Harrelson does is half bad. He's home-grown too.

The problem though, as Sandra and Rayanne pointed out and as I've come to discover watching character throughout the years is that sometimes the "characteer" is nothing more than a front for something (or someone) else.

That may have been the case with poor Charlie Keating.

Comment by Jerry Albright on October 22, 2010 at 8:21am

Thanks ladies. I post about someone who in my (professional) (and not so humble) opinion is a good guy.......and you ladies drag up porn and Larry Flynt.

Nice work.

Comment by Maureen Sharib on October 22, 2010 at 11:40am

That's what we're here for, Jer.
I think I can speak reasonably well on behalf of myself, Sandra and Rayanne when I say the three of us, wise beyoond our years, should be known here on recruitingblogs.com as the Witches of Eastwick RecruitingBlogs.com.

Comment by Rayanne on October 22, 2010 at 12:17pm

Ummm..., CB, Jerry posted his GPA: 3.98 - that means he is almost a straight A student.... probably got a B in 7th grade. That would make him better than a C+ student...

Thanks for not commenting on porn. Though, I am not sure why you capitalized it.

Comment by Sandra McCartt on October 22, 2010 at 12:18pm

Thank God my wisdom finally caught up with my years. Jer. It was my "professional" and "not so humble" opinion that got me in the soup on my good guy. It just caught my eye because it was almost an identical profile and i felt the same way. And i would again most probably. No amount of home work, reference checking, interviewing etc can unearth some of the things that are part of the human condition.

We can only operate on the information we are given and that elusive thing called "gut feel", Sometimes all those get us into a wreck but mostly they don't.

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