Recruitment Ethics: Ethics In Hiring, Staffing and Recruitment
Posted on June 27, 2008
Ethics in the field of hiring, staffing and recruitment is based on a combination of things and depends on who is actually involved in the hiring process.
Certainly the job searcher, hiring manager and recruiter are just three possible people involved in a hiring decision.
As a recruiter, I try my best to gauge the truthfulness of comments by both job searchers and hiring managers and they presumably are gauging my truthfulness as well.
Commonly, job searchers often lie about various aspects of their resume ie. their salary, why they left their last job, their job responsibilities, their educational achievements, etc.
Hiring managers might lie about why they are looking to hire a new person ie. they might lie about why the previous person left the job they are trying to fill (if the last person who held the job was fired for something embarrassing like having an office affair or something like that, do you think the hiring manager will tell you the truth about why the person was fired? Me neither). Similarly a hiring manager probably won't tell you that the previous person quit the job because they were bored or because they thought their manager was a jerk either.
A recruiter needs to find the truth and often needs to read between the lines of comments that are made to them by either the job searcher or the hiring manger.
Similarly some recruiters aren't always capable of telling the truth 100% of the time either. Recruiters often have a reputation not much better than a used car saleman - no offense to used car salesmen - and sometimes it's not difficult to see why.
Whether you're a job searcher looking for a job, a hiring manager looking to fill a job, or a recruiter looking for a job searcher to fill a job, the truth tends to come out one way or the other.
As a recruiter, I have a hard time working with people I can't trust and I'm usually a pretty good judge of character. I tell the truth when working with job searchers and hiring managers alike and I expect them to do the same.
There are plenty of job searchers and hiring managers - and recruiters - out there and life is just too short to waste time with people who aren't trustworthy.
Carl Mueller is an Internet entrepreneur and professional recruiter who has written an ebook for career-minded individuals: http://www.RecruiterSecretsRevealed.com
Recruiter Secrets Revealed sheds light on job search and career management "secrets" that you can use to supercharge your career and distinguish yourself from other job searchers.
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