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Author of 'inappropriate' and 'tacky' LinkedIn response to job seeker's approach that went viral apologises through CNN after Internet backlash

on Mar 1, 2014 | 0 comments

By Stephen Lepitak

A scathing response by a marketing executive to a job seeker who approached her through LinkedIn has gone viral, and provoked the ire of the internet in return, with its author forced to apologise in a letter to CNN.

The letter written by Kelly Blazek, who runs a job bank for marketing professionals, was contacted by Diana Mekota who was planning to move to Cleveland in the summer, and attempted to add Blazek to her LinkedIn contacts.

Blazek emailed Mekota following her approach to tell her; “”Your invite to connect is inappropriate, beneficial only to you and tacky.”

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Source: The Drum