First of all: no judgement.

But familial relationships, of which marriage is, are what makes it nepotism.

So, I guess the missing piece is the relationship w/ the school your husband has. If he directly has any connection to the school… Or he’s related to anyone with a direct relationship to the school…

Which, again, doesn’t mean you’re wrong for the job. Congratulations regardless.

Nepotism is usually restricted to familial relations by definition, but networking can work in a very similar way sometimes. I.e. lead to unjustified hiring decisions. I guess the more relevant questions are: was it fair and are you qualified to do the job in practice? Instead of whether it technically falls under nepotism.

It’s nepotism if the person doing the hiring/appointing employs their relatives. If your husband didn’t hire you, it’s not nepotism.

Also to note, nepotism has a connotation of being bad but there’s nothing inherent in the definition that says it is. If your husband hires you, it’s possible you might be the most qualified person for the job. However, there’s always going to be the appearance of favoritism or cronyism, which is why it’s ethically frowned-on.

Didn’t have any, but my husband put in a word for me and I got hired.

Networking.

If it was nepotism, you would have said:

Didn’t have any, but my husband was the hiring manager, and put me on the payroll anyway.

I think nepotism definition wise mostly accounts for being hired by a relative, so… if the final decision wasn’t your husband’s it wouldn’t necessarily be?

I mean, to be clear, nepotism is about hiring relatives (etymologically nephews, not sure if people realize that).

You can be hired on influence rather than skill or qualifications even if you’re not blood related. I’m only now realizing that English doesn’t have a derisive word for this practice. Other languages do. In fact, had the school been public at least, the hiring process you describe would have been outright illegal where I live.

I think we’ve stumbled upon one of those cultural differences subtly encoded in language here.

And to be clear, I’m more lenient with it than my compatriots. I find building a team based on personal connection or how well you work with each other, rather than pure objective qualifications, is legitimate and can yield better results in some circumstances. Here it’s generally frowned upon culturally if that connection is pre-existing rather than identified through a recruitment process though, family relations or not.

Nepotism is networking through family/relatives., and generally refers to the person doing the hiring being related.

Hiring a relative = nepotisim.

Getting hired because you know somebody = networking.

That would probably be nepotism. The common interpertation of nepotism is hiring family memebers, the definition of the word may also include close friends.

I would argue that really it is just a spectrum like so:

close personal relationship but unfit (ie nepotism)

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some relationship and reasonably suited (ie networking)

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no relationship and well suited.

There’s a big difference between someone putting in a good word for you…and having them “pull strings” to get you the job. If all he did was get you an interview and you took care of the rest, it’s fine. But if he has actual “pull” with the company…meaning, they have to do what he tells them to…then there might be some resentment among your coworkers.

It’s nepotism when you get hired because you’re related to someone, often disregarding your qualifications for the job.

Someone recommending you, and you going through the normal hiring process and being picked is not nepotism, even when the recommandation has influenced the employer to hire you for the job.

One of them contains “poti” the other one contains “work”

the main requirements are: 1. At least a bachelor’s degree in English (or something similar/related). 2. Be a native English speaker. 3. Have a bit of experience teaching English. Didn’t have any, but my husband put in a word for me and I got hired.

Wait you don’t have any teaching experience or you didn’t have any of the main requirements?

it’s probably nepotism but sometimes desperation to fill a job posting is the priority. if you’re the only one available, it’s better than not having someone

There isn’t a meaningful difference.

Networking is the nice word for nepotism.

Usually the distinction is friends network and family appointments are nepotism.