Financial Services & Recruiting academyrecruiting on 19 Nov 2007 10:35 am
Submitting candidates without their permission is wrong
I’m going to go back to Jim Stroud again today because Part II of his Ethical Behavior in Recruiting series is just too good to pass up.
In this installment, Jim has a guest post from Yvonne Catino, a technical recruiter, where she blasts the practice of recruiters submitting a candidate for a position without the candidate’s permission.
Yvonne provides some fantastic advice for candidates on how to deal with recruiters, including some questions you should ask any recruiter who’s talking to you, and I would strongly recommend reading the entire post.
Let me contrast what she rightly complains about there with what we do:
- We only submit candidates with their permission.
- We schedule interviews with candidates.
- We interview at length any candidate that is going to be submitted.
- We tell candidates why they should choose us to represent them.
Candidates should expect those things from recruiters, and we recruiters should be able to expect them from each other as well.
