The Ethics of Online Recruiting

pWith the economy in constant change , job seekers are turning to relationship networking to find the latest hidden opportunity and employment managers are being challenged by swarms of irrelevant resumes ./p
p This constant change has driven millions of people to voluntarily create profiles on social sites, creating a realization that the idea of submitting your resume through official channels becoming a second option for talented professionals./p
p Within each industry , this information may or may not be professionally acceptable or even legal to use. Whether you view this scenario from the employer or prospect viewpoint: there is probably information out there that you want to know about./p
pstrongnbsp;/strong The general idea: services like Facebook and Twitter have altered the entire recipe for finding the perfect job. /p
pWith that evolution, both sides of the digital recruiting equation are facing new and unknown challenges… they are being forced to answer questions that never existed before./p
pstrongThose questions could sound like this:/strong/p
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liIs it okay to research candidates personally? /li
liIs it bad form to find out what a manager did this weekend?/li
liDo we qualify and quantify someone based upon who they know?/li
liShould we track connections before, during, and after meeting them?/li
/ul
p The electronic transition of our personal information and social networks has created an influx of data: information that both job hunters and hiring managers are being lost within. /p
pstrongSo who should take advantage of this information? /strong/p
p style=text-align: center;strongemAnyone. Everyone. /em/strong/p
p style=text-align: center;emï#187;#191;Especially those individuals and businesses who want to know things, rather than assume they are not there. /emï#187;#191;/p
pstrongWhat can recruiters do? /strong/p
pstrongFirst and foremost,/strong recruiters need to think about the strategy, policy, and regulations surrounding the industry they act within. Some recruiters have the benefit of extremely flexible regulations (or even non-existent), while other recruiters are buried by federal and trade issues./p
pYou can see an example of this with a title=accounting jobs href=http://www.fins.com target=_blankaccounting and finance jobs/a, where companies like the Wall Street Journal and other financial organizations have thousands of federal regulations and state laws to consider./p
pstrongSecond:/strong recruiters and human resource teams need to examine monthly education on this rapid digital trend. They should develop a workload that encourages the team to examine new tools and consider new opportunities, partnering with industry experts who can share best practices and minimize learning costs./p
pAt the earlist stages of this learning curve, teams should simply create a bullet list of five to ten top blogs that deal with their industry and faithfully read them. A few hours of reading spread out over a four to twelve week period can fill in both strategic and tactical gaps. If you dont have a list of such resources: find one. (again, using our a title=accounting jobs href=http://www.fins.com target=_blankaccounting jobs/a example: there are dozens of niche industry sites that have some pretty amazing resources.)/p
pstrongThird/strong: study the competition. Whether you work for a small team or a major corporation, recruiters always have competition for talent. Keep an eye on businesses with similar goals and structures: when they launch new efforts, there is often an opportunity to study what they are doing (I.E. make them pay for the test, study the outcome, and design a better wheel!) or look for competitors who have fallen on rough times and ask if there are opportunities to pick up talented workers during layoffs or office closures./p
pstrongGetting started: /strong/p
pStart reading. Take action. Invite a few collegues to a brainstorm session and identify one or two elements that you can collaborate on and share results./p
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