Posts by RecruiterGuy

These notes are probably not for the very experienced corporate recruiter who has dozens of Career Fairs behind them. You have already figured most of this out! This column is for the less experienced corporate recruiter who wants to learn a few tricks that the old, Wiley recruiters use. I have worked over 100 Career…

As a professional recruiter, I have worked many Career Fairs. In the 1990’s it was one of the ways many companies recruited candidates. The Internet Job Boards were not as entrenched as they are today and companies felt there was value by being there. I used to coach my clients that if they managed to…

When do companies run into ethics problems in recruitment? That is a good question. It is one that is generally dependent on the recruitment pressures that hiring managers and internal recruiters are feeling. For instance, if the internal corporate recruiters are dealing with open requisition loads that are higher than normal and they are feeling…

In my last Blog we discussed the problems of integrity and ethics within the professional recruiting world. Generally when recruitment ethics is discussed, the other two sides of recruitment ethics take a back seat. What about the integrity of the candidate? A whole industry of background investigations into candidates’ pasts has been formed and thrives…

When I mentioned to one of my neighbors that I was going to be a panel participant on “Ethical Perspectives on the News” on KCRG TV discussing “Recruitment Ethics”, his comment while laughing was “Isn’t that an oxymoron?” That is a sad commentary on the recruitment industry. However when you are dealing with people on…