Ethical recruitment: Ethics in recruitment, staffing and recruitment

Ethics in recruitment, staffing and recruitment is based on a combination of things and it depends on who is actually involved in the hiring process.

Of course, job seekers, hiring manager and recruiter are only three people as possible involved in a hiring decision.

As a recruiter, I do my best to assess the veracity of the comments from both job seekers and hiring managers, and that presumably measure my sincerity as well.

Commonly, job seekers often find themselves on the various aspects of their curriculum ie. their salary, because they left their last job, their professional responsibilities, their academic achievements, etc.

Hiring managers might lie about that they are looking to hire a new person that is. could lie about where the previous person left the job they are trying to fill (if the last person who held the job has been fired for something embarrassing like having a relationship office or something, you think the hiring manager will tell the truth about why the person was fired? Me neither). Similarly, a hiring manager probably will not tell you that the last person to leave their jobs because they were bored or because they thought their manager was a jerk either.

A recruiter needs to find the truth and often have to read between the lines of comments that are made to them by a person seeking employment or hiring manger.

Similarly, some recruiters are not always able to tell 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 is not difficult to understand why.

Whether you are a job seeker looking for a job, a hiring manager looking to fill a job, or a recruiter looking for a researcher working to fill a job, the truth tends to come out one way or in the other.

As a recruiter, I have difficulty working with people I can trust and are usually a pretty good judge of character. I am telling the truth when you are working with researchers at work and hiring managers alike and I expect to do the same.

There are a lot of job seekers and hiring managers - and recruiters - out there and life is too short to waste time with people who are not reliable ....