World Humanitarian Day pays respect to those working to help improve the lives of others in dyer conditions. VHR are helping raise awareness of Unethical Recruitment – a practice that can have legal consequences and damage the lives of everyone involved.
A candidate should never be asked to pay for recruitment services, despite the reputation of the agency or profiles of the job opportunities available. For instance, clients recognise that the best candidates are a valuable commodity and would not approve of charging them to apply.
Additionally, the best candidates will not accept partnering with a recruitment agency that is wanting to charge them; therefore, always avoid a recruiter that asks for payments of their services.
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The job is real and the order does exist, however unethical recruiters will attempt to make the position look more inviting to candidates by editing the description with deceptive changes.
The most obvious of changes are to increase the salary and other benefits: including holiday days, sick pay, location, travel perks and compensations.
Additionally, unethical recruiters will practice dishonesty as a means of achieving targets and bonuses; they might make the responsibilities of the candidate seem more or less prestigious.
Discrimination means treating a person unfairly because of who they are or because they possess certain characteristics; this covers the basis of race, sex, gender or religion. If a recruiter discriminates against a candidate, they are behaving in an unethical manner.
Despite claims of bias in hiring harming the reputation of a business, leading to the potential for lost business and revenue, unethical recruiters will use such tactics based on their own personal preference.
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Similar to altering the job descriptions, editing a candidate’s CV to suit a job’s requirements is equally unethical. An unethical recruiter that edits a CV on open formats will have the sole objective of getting candidates through the front door of a client’s business.
Always ensure that a CV’s are shared in either JPEG or PDF, not an editable format such as Word Doc, Photoshop or InDesign.
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An unethical recruiter will lure a candidate in to a job opportunity by practicing the following steps:
1. Creating a fake job description
2. Advertising it to receive and source the best type of CV’s
3. Offering the candidates amazing life time opportunities to match their skill-sets and aspirations
4. Claiming they’ve submitted their CV to the client
5. Following-up with the candidate a week or two later to inform them that they’ve spoken to the client
6. Revealing that unfortunately the position has gone to someone internally
By doing this, the candidate will never know that the job opportunity wasn’t in fact real, they are instead led under the impression that it was taken by someone else; this is completely unethical and a violation of data.
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