Previously, they recruited for work thanks to a good blat, today - you can get on patronage. It does not sound very offensive, although the essence is not how it has changed. When such a person appears in the team, in an uneasy situation everyone turns out to be: bosses, colleagues, and the protege himself. How to behave in each of these roles, we will try to understand these situations together with experts.
Being a protege is very convenient for the first time, however, this is not entirely true. Even if you are a good specialist, you still have to prove to all your professional skills.
Anastasia, assistant account manager.
In the advertising agency, my best friend helped me to get settled - she was the head of the sales department. I did not have enough experience, and then she offered to try with the simplest job - assistant account manager. I was not very worried at the time that it was arranged by blat - I still have to start everything from the very beginning. However, when I came to this job, other managers constantly carp at me for every little thing, and one day, during an emergency job, a colleague broke and cursed me. I was just in shock, did not understand what I deserved such treatment. After this incident, this colleague was fired, and colleagues began to behave more restrained. To say that I joined the team after that, I can not still - even though the blat did not give me any privileges and I work with everyone on a par.
Specialist's comment.
It is not easy to be arranged for a reason. We need to think everything over beforehand, our relations with our colleagues. For example, Anastasia, feeling that she was treated with understanding, could discuss everything with colleagues.
There are always proteges who feel themselves under the care of the boss comfortably and quite safely. Late for work, for a couple of hours - the head will close all eyes. Made a mistake in the report - the boss kindly scolds. When this employee is - an ordinary colleague will not be very easy.
Natasha, the designer.
When I just got a job in a new company in the department for advertising, immediately began the difficulties with my immediate boss. She gave as many assignments as possible, but she herself could not find the time to check the result of my work, and without coordination with the boss I could not give the project to work. Instead of doing her work, she cut through the shops and bought gifts for clients. My premonitions about the incompetence of my boss soon came true. One of the colleagues on the job said that the boss was hired for work because she was in a relationship with the CEO. And first to work, she came to the post of the usual advertising manager, but then, by means of slander, she got the dismissal of the former boss and took his place of work. The old composition of the workers quit in protest, and the protégé recruited a new one. Complaining, it was no one: when our new lawyer wrote a report on it and gave it to the general director, then the lawyer was immediately fired. In general, it's impossible to work with her, and I found a new job.
Specialist's comment.
At the interview stage, it's not just your boss who looks to see if you are approaching him, but also you see if the firm suits you. Do not immediately sign a contract without meeting your immediate superiors.
Why do heads bring their friends or relatives to the staff?
The reasons can be different.
1. Often, leaders are guided by the fact that a foreign worker may not fit into his team, and for this it will be more convenient to take the candidate with whom he once worked with you
2. No manager wants to trust the company's money or secret information to an outsider, in which he is not sure.
3. If the company has a vacancy, and your boss has a good specialist, why not employ him. It saves both time and money.