Handling Applicants with Noncompete Agreements

Employers are also understandably concerned when top candidates may have signed a noncompete agreement with the company they’re currently working for. Making an offer to a top candidate only to find that they’re bound by such an agreement can be costly both in terms of the time already spent with the candidate in the recruitment process and the cost that might be involved in attempting to prove the agreement is unenforceable, or to negotiate different requirements.
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