Friday, August 7, 2009

Recruitment Ethics

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.

A recruiter has to be loyal to his profession to supply the best skilled choice to the employer company according to its needs and on the other hand he has to stay sincere to the jobs searchers.


Commonly, job searchers often lie about various aspects of their resume such as their salary, why they left their last job, their job responsibilities, their educational achievements, etc.
Hiring managers may produce false statement about why they are looking to hire a new person like; they might lie about why the previous person left the job they are trying to fill. Similarly, a hiring manager probably won't tell you that the previous person quit the job because the employee who left the organization was over burdened due to extensive work but was paid less as compare to his duties.

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, sometimes the recruiters have to make false statements during the recruitment process to stay at the safe side. Like they avoid telling about the actual reputation of the company in which the applicant is going to be hired.

Whether you are a job seeker looking for a job, a hiring manager looking to fill a job, or a recruiter looking for a candidate to fill a job for the hiring manager, there must not be any false statement between the whole recruitment process because someday or the other this can be the source of degradation for the applicant, employer company and the recruitment agency.

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.

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