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My guess, from multiple observations and sources, is that unethical conduct for business advantage is not only used, but welcomed. The organizations may have massive policies on “ethics” but they are applied primarily to employees doing unethical things for personal gain. If the employee is caught, he/she may be fired.

On September 21, 2011, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) announced its new worker misclassification amnesty program, which is designed to encourage employers that have wrongly classified any of their workers to come forward and correctly classify their workers as employees going forward.  Officially called the Voluntary Classification Settlement Program (VCSP), the program is the IRS’s attempt to “enable many employers to resolve past worker classification issues and achieve certainty under the tax law at a low cost by voluntarily reclassifying their workers”.  

I was talking with a friend of mine the other day about Occupy Wall Street. She said to me “This is what I’ve been waiting for my whole life”. I told her I feel exactly the same way.

The only difference is that she’s in her early twenties, and I’m in my early fifties.

Did you ever have a love/hate relationship…Can’t live with them…can’t live without them? Sure, most of us have. What makes this even more interesting is that I am talking about your ATS (Applicant Tracking System)?

On one hand, resume parsing is a miracle and saves us countless minutes of data entry time (which translates into more phone time). On the other hand, I often sit there and think, “Who does this system think it is? What does it know about my candidates!”

My experience has proven to me that most recruiters I interact with these days are simply robbing a living. They take more than they deserve, they play games to get and keep monies for hires in any creative way they can concoct. With the economy and job market the way it is today I don't know if these people are more akin to the negative stigma associated with used car salesmen or human traffickers. Either way, I - as well as everyone I speak to today about the topic - find them to be an unsavory breed and a necessary evil.

I have yet to find a reliable recruiter that lives up to their promises, delivers quality, invests effort into their placements and has any loyalty to anything other than filling their own purse.

The headline caught my attention…

One Third of Employers Worldwide Cannot Find Qualified Talent, Survey Finds.

NEWSFLASH – It is NOT a candidate problem! The candidates are out there, waiting to become part of your organization. I actually see the problem as two-fold and both lie squarely on the shoulders of the hiring organization.