Financial Services & Recruiting academyrecruiting on 12 Nov 2007 03:34 pm
“How can you gain a candidate’s trust by starting off with a lie?”
Simple - you can’t.
Absolutely spot on question from Jim Stroud today in a post called Ethical Behavior in Recruiting, Part I. Jim describes the shady manner in which someone he talked to represents himself as an employee of a company that he actually only does contract work for, and then goes on to relate that to similar practices he’s seen from some of our fellow recruiters, such as posting listings for positions that really don’t exist.
Not a subject we normally talk about here, but this seems like a good time. As a candidate, you can be confident that all the listings you see from us are for real positions with an existing requirement. Make sure you can say that about any recruiter you deal with.
Jim sums it all up right here:
“I believe, as recruiters, we have a responsibility to represent any position in an honest manner.”
Exactly.
