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Ethical Recruiting Part 2 |
| Date Added: January 16, 2010 04:15:31 AM |
| Author: Chris O'Leary |
| Category: Jobs |
| O’Leary is the principal of Loss Prevention Recruiters a leading Retail Loss Prevention Recruiting Solutions Provider. He is a former Loss Prevention Executive who has provided Loss Prevention Career Guidance for over 20 years and can be reached at 440-210-1867 or chriso@lprecruiters.com. The responsibility of every Search Firm is to provide world-class customer service to both their clients and to candidates. Customer service is of course the backbone for any successful service provider and recruiting is no exception. The number one value of any recruiter without debate is ethics. Without it you are simply a “head hunter” looking to make a buck off of anyone and everyone you can. By taking this approach you are not concerned with providing world-class customer service or quality and you certainly are not concerned with how your actions may impact an organization or someone’s career. I totally support our free enterprise system, at least whatever the federal government doesn’t own and hope that everyone achieves personal and financial success. However I do not support this at any cost and certainly not at the cost of anyone’s career. The purpose of my last article regarding ethics in recruiting was to help candidates understand that they need to be aware of not only who they are working with but to ask informed questions of those search firms they work with. The other objective of the article was to prevent future unethical acts by pointing out some of the unethical recruiting practices being conducted by some of the search firms in our industry. My hope was that those involved would look in the mirror and start doing the right thing. Being a half full glass kind of person I like to think positively about everything however in this case unfortunately I was wrong. A very well-known search firm breached the confidentiality of a candidate who was involved in a non-exclusive search they were conducting. After finding out this candidate was presented to the client by another search firm, this well-known search firm and obviously for self-serving reasons informed this candidate’s employer that they were interviewing with another company. Not so coincidentally, this well-known search firm also represents this candidate’s employer. In an industry built upon ethics and integrity my question is, why would anyone continue to do business with any firm that continues to practice unethically and obviously is only in it for the money? This incident is without question the most unethical act that any recruiter could possibly commit! It is an unconscionable and an un-defendable practice that not only puts a person in jeopardy of losing their job but it also negatively impacts the family that depends on them. There is no rationalization or excuse for doing this, none period! There are reputable and qualified search firms to work with however, no one in our industry should be concerned about working with any search firm which should be providing sound & ethical advice and that is sincerely interested in each person’s success and above everything else protects their confidentiality. I will continue to call out these unethical practices until our industry is free from those who choose to continue to act in this way regardless of who they are. But I cannot end it, I can only write about it and inform you. Only you can end it by refusing to work with any company that practices unethically. Do you really believe that these types of companies would not hesitate to throw you under the bus if it would benefit them? This story does have a somewhat happy ending as the candidate in question fortunately did not get fired and decided to withdraw from the search process and chose to remain where they are. I can hardly blame them, but they should have never been put into that position to begin with. My sincere hope is that there will be no need for Ethical Recruiting Part 3. |
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