Users Guide to the Principles for Professional Conduct
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Principles for Employer Professionals
2. Knowledge of the field, industry, and organization, possession of requisite skills
“Employment professionals will know the recruitment and career development field as well as the industry and the employing organization that they represent, and work within a framework of professionally accepted recruiting, interviewing, and selection techniques. (See Third Party Principle 2)
(Intent / Rationale / Resources)
Intent
Employment professionals will provide a selection process that makes
for rational decision making about employment offers.
Rationale
There is an assumption among students that the employment professionals
recruiting at their school are using a process that produces appropriate
hiring decisions: competently administered recruitment process that
contributes to valid decisions by candidates about employment offers.
This is in keeping with the fundamental precepts of the Principles
document, namely:
(1) a selection process where candidates can make choices that are
“consistent with personal objectives and all relevant facts;”
(2) “a recruitment process that is fair and equitable to candidates…;”
and
(3) “informed and responsible decision-making by candidates.
Career services and employers form a partnership that is intended
to benefit all parties involved in this process. This demands that
employers be able to function within accepted professional standards
and represent their organizations accurately to the career services
office.
Finally, employment professionals are relied on to attract and hire
the best candidates possible for their organizations. Not only does
this require basic competence, there is also the need to attract
candidates whose reasons for choosing the organization match with
the reality of that organization. Otherwise, turnover and the costs
associated with these errors will result.
Kaplan, Rochelle. "A Legal Look at Offers and Acceptances." Spotlight, May 3, 1999.
Kaplan, Rochelle. "Playing the Hiring Game: The Ethics of Offers and Acceptances." Journal of Career Planning & Employment, Winter 1998.
Kaplan, Rochelle. "Handling Illegal Questions." Job Choices 2002.
NACE Principles for Professional Conduct Committee. "Exploding Offers." Spotlight, October 15, 1999.
NACE Principles for Professional Conduct Committee. "Playing Fair." Job Choices 2002.
