The head of a Cleveland-area Job Bank issued a public apology after a rejection email she sent went viral. In it, she basically reamed out someone for wanting to apply to be a member of her private LinkedIn group because they hadn’t “earned the right to ask me to connect on LinkedIn.” You can read all about Kelly Blazek’s epic fail here as well as her apology to the email writer and her followers here.
Whether or not Blazek was out of line in her response is not the issue here, though I do believe there are nicer ways to turn people away. The broader issue is how to go about asking people for help — or even to connect – on LinkedIn.
This article was originally published on Huffington Post on March 27, 2014. To continue reading the full article, click here.
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