A Geographic Information System (GIS) professional, Priyanka Joshi, shared why she had to reject a genuinely good candidate in a recent job interview in a now-viral post on X.

Joshi wrote, "Today, I had to reject a candidate for a job interview. He seemed like a genuinely good person, but he simply didn’t possess the skills required for the role."

She added, "I could sense his desperation perhaps he had a family to support, maybe EMIs weighing on him yet, I couldn’t let empathy cloud my professional judgment. It was a difficult decision, but a necessary one."

Joshi referred to the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita , explaining, "Lord Krishna repeatedly emphasises the principle of ‘Nishkama Karma’ performing one’s duty without attachment to the result. Karma, in this context, isn’t about

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