Is Integrity In Recruiting Dead?

🚨 ATTENTION GOOD EGGS 🚨 Where Are All the Good Ones?

I’m looking to connect with the real Recruiting Professionals out there—the ones who actually care. There are too many bad eggs giving our business a bad name. Let’s cut through the noise, come together, and do what we’re supposed to do: help people.

Recruiting the Right Way – What Makes A Recruiter…A Recruiter?

✅ Don’t pretend to be something you’re not.

✅ Hold yourself to the highest moral and ethical standard.

✅ Have a high level of integrity.

✅ If you have 5 years of experience or less, don’t call yourself an “expert”.

✅ In-depth knowledge of running a full desk.

✅ Never leaving a candidate hanging. No ghosting.

✅ You’re honest and transparent in every situation.

✅ Keeping all client and candidate conversations strictly confidential.

✅ Showing care and respect for all parties involved.

✅ Having empathy for your candidates.

✅ The ability to know when you're being played. Having that 6th sense.

✅ Learning from every loss – Being humble in victory.

✅ Keeping personal emotions out of the search.

✅ Never recruit from an existing client.

✅ Control the process, not the people.

✅ Verify everything—never just take someone’s word for it.

✅ Never taking success for granted.

📢 If you want to add to this list, comment before. Any smart-ass comments will be reported and deleted.

📢 If you’re not a Recruiter, but know a “Good Egg”, tag them here please.

📢 If you are a “Good Egg”, I encourage you to join my new LinkedIn Group where we can support each other and have rational discussions.

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