telling someone they didn't get the job

i'm guilty of this. part of it is that i don't like confrontation, part that i'm a new manager. the other part is that i barely have time to do the interviewing and training for the person i hired, much less dealing with the ones that i didn't.

but enough excuses. this is something i definitely need to work on.

the open loops blog had an interesting post about what not to do during the interview process:
http://hwebbjr.typepad.com/openloops/2006/05/how_to_tell_som.html

and it definitely applies to more than just the school system.