| Ethics in the field of hiring, staffing and recruitment is | | | | bored or because they thought their manager was a |
| based on a combination of things and depends on | | | | jerk either. |
| who is actually involved in the hiring process. | | | | A recruiter needs to find the truth and often needs to |
| Certainly the job searcher, hiring manager and recruiter | | | | read between the lines of comments that are made to |
| are just three possible people involved in a hiring | | | | them by either the job searcher or the hiring manger. |
| decision. | | | | Similarly some recruiters aren't always capable of |
| As a recruiter, I try my best to gauge the truthfulness | | | | telling the truth 100% of the time either. Recruiters |
| of comments by both job searchers and hiring | | | | often have a reputation not much better than a used |
| managers and they presumably are gauging my | | | | car saleman - no offense to used car salesmen - and |
| truthfulness as well. | | | | sometimes it's not difficult to see why. |
| Commonly, job searchers often lie about various | | | | Whether you're a job searcher looking for a job, a |
| aspects of their resume ie. their salary, why they left | | | | hiring manager looking to fill a job, or a recruiter looking |
| their last job, their job responsibilities, their educational | | | | for a job searcher to fill a job, the truth tends to come |
| achievements, etc. | | | | out one way or the other. |
| Hiring managers might lie about why they are looking | | | | As a recruiter, I have a hard time working with people I |
| to hire a new person ie. they might lie about why the | | | | can't trust and I'm usually a pretty good judge of |
| previous person left the job they are trying to fill (if the | | | | character. I tell the truth when working with job |
| last person who held the job was fired for something | | | | searchers and hiring managers alike and I expect them |
| embarrassing like having an office affair or something | | | | to do the same. |
| like that, do you think the hiring manager will tell you the | | | | There are plenty of job searchers and hiring managers |
| truth about why the person was fired? Me neither). | | | | - and recruiters - out there and life is just too short to |
| Similarly a hiring manager probably won't tell you that | | | | waste time with people who aren't trustworthy. |
| the previous person quit the job because they were | | | | |