If you're hiring someone to do a job,

[Nye Bevan]

and someone you like, respect and trust strongly recommends one particular candidate for the position, will that recommendation be a factor in your decision as to who to hire?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

1. yes

it def plays a factor with me.

[pipoman]

2. Absolutely....

Of course I consider the source, I do this often.

[brooklynite]

3. Depends on how much I know already

For example, I don't know much about Nevada politics, but I respect Harry Reid's support for Catherine CorteZ-Masto as Senate candidate. That said, I wouldn't support her if my own analysis said the race wasn't winnable (it is).

In the case of Presidential Primaries, I already know enough about both candidates.

[Silver_Witch]

4. If I know them personally and respect them!!

Note keyword personally. As in a personal relationship with the person doing the recommending. Not a talking head or acquaintance! Person friend I know and respect!

[NWCorona]

5. This guy?

[VulgarPoet]

6. Multiple variables.

Depends who they're recommending, why they're recommending them, if there's an element of socially-inflicted duress, and who the person who's doing the recommending is.

[QC]

7. Depends on the interview.

Several times I've had friends send me glowing recs for people who didn't interview well. I voted against hiring those candidates.

[TheFarseer]

8. Not a good analogy

I know Bernie, Hillary and Trumps record and they're on TV every night etc etc. Hiring for an accountant or a nurse you would not have that luxury. An endorsement would carry much more weight. I assume that's what you were getting at.

[HumanityExperiment]

9. ...factors...

do recommendations factor more or do qualifications and history?

which do you put more weight into for making your decision?

[JonLeibowitz]

10. Does the recommender stand to benefit in any way if the recommended is hired / not hired?

Because in order for your implied analogy to hold, the answer would have to be "yes".

And that's not the case in most job recommendations / letters of support.

[TheKentuckian]

11. I'll factor it in but that's as far as it goes, I've been burned before.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

12. Maybe. But, I'm good at making my own decisions. Particularly in politics.

No one that I know and like, respect and trust strongly, has recommended Hillary for the job. But, if someone that fit that description was to do so, I would just have to rely on my own assessment.

[AgingAmerican]

13. If the employer found out the job candidate was under FBI investigation

Would that not have an impact on the employers decision?

[Autumn]

14. It depends on what I know about the person, we may both see different things in the same person.

But in the end I will always go with my instinct which is based on what I know and feel about the person I am hiring.

[oasis]

15. ImWithHerAgain. This remarkable person needs no introduction.

But it certainly helps.