Honesty And Ethics In Job Searching

Submitted by: Carl Mueller

Honesty and ethics in the field of employing, staffing and recruitment is dependant on a mixture of points and depends upon who is in reality active in the hiring process.

Undoubtedly the job searcher, hiring manager and recruiter are just three possible people involved in a hiring decision.

As a recruiter, I strive my best to assess the honesty of responses by both job searchers and hiring managers and they presumably are evaluating my truthfulness as well.

One instance I recall was when a job searcher’s resume popped up several times on an Internet job board with several different versions that all contained different jobs and dates that the person had allegedly worked there. He also had a slightly different name on each of the resumes too which didn’t look good. As it turned out the wife of one of my colleagues had worked with this candidate in the past and confirmed that the person was lying. Needless to say I didn’t work with this person anymore.

Normally, job hunters typically lie about several components of their cv ie. their income, why they left their previous job, their occupation responsibilities, their educational accomplishments, etc.

Hiring managers might lie in relation to the reason why they’re trying to hire a new person ie. they may lie about the reasons why the last individual left the job they are trying to fill (if the last person who held the job was let go for something humiliating like having an office relationship or something of that nature, do you think the potential employer will tell you the truth about why the person had been let go? Me neither). Similarly a hiring manager probably will not let you know that the previous person quit the position because they were uninterested or because they thought their supervisor was a jerk either.

A headhunter must discover the facts and often needs to read between the lines involving responses that are made to them by either the job searcher or the potential employer.

Likewise some recruiters aren’t always capable of being truthful 100% of the time either. Recruiters frequently have a reputation not a great deal better than a used car saleman – no offense to used car salesmen – and often it’s not difficult to see why.

Whether you’re a job searcher looking for a job, a potential employer looking to fill a job, or a recruiter looking for a job searcher to fill a job, the truth tends to come out one way or the other.

As a headhunter, I’ve got a hard time working with people I cannot have confidence in and i’m usually a very good judge of character. I tell the truth whenever working with job searchers and hiring managers alike and I expect them to do the same.

There are lots of job searchers and hiring managers – and recruiters – out there and life is simply too short to waste time with individuals who aren’t trustworthy.

About the Author: Carl Mueller spent several years as a recruiter helping career-minded people get better jobs. He’s put everything he learned as a recruiter into his website

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