Now THIS has never happened to me before
. As much as I try and recruit candidates from the local geographic market, a couple times each year I throw down a couple relocation deals. Last month I had a GREAT engineer from the Mid-Atlantic region accept an offer from a client of mine in Arizona. He and his wife visited the area during the interview, stayed the weekend, met up with a realtor who showed them numerous properties, one of which they fell in love with. Of course the weather always cooperates in Arizona so it was gorgeous out there. We negotiate an offer, the wife makes plans to sell her business (luckily she did not sign the dotted line), the candidate accepts, signs his offer letter, sends it back to my client and resigns on Friday morning. Friday afternoon he talks to his wife, who had just talked to their local realtor, and it turns out that if they sold their home they would be $40-$60G's in the hole
. That's right AFTER his employer accepted his resignation. Long story short, the deal of course fell through
, the candidate had to crawl back to his boss, and luckily he did not burn any bridges as they welcomed him back with open arms. Back to the drawing board.
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