Comments - Ziprecruiter, LinkedIn: Fraudulent Job Postings and Sharing Your Job Candidates - RecruitingBlogs2024-03-29T07:07:36Zhttps://recruitingblogs.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=502551%3ABlogPost%3A1968018&xn_auth=noAs of 11/9/2016 this practice…tag:recruitingblogs.com,2016-11-09:502551:Comment:19936042016-11-09T21:39:05.846ZGreg Davidhttps://recruitingblogs.com/profile/GregDavid
<p>As of 11/9/2016 this practice by ZipRecruiter is alive and well. I have a client who requests we use ZipRecruiter to post their roles. I learned today that a candidate who applied for one of this client's roles was contacted after applying by a ZipRecruiter employee and this person fraudently misrepresented themselves as someone who is part of the hiring process at our firm and our client's firm, and they shared that they were themselves passing along the person's resume to the hiring…</p>
<p>As of 11/9/2016 this practice by ZipRecruiter is alive and well. I have a client who requests we use ZipRecruiter to post their roles. I learned today that a candidate who applied for one of this client's roles was contacted after applying by a ZipRecruiter employee and this person fraudently misrepresented themselves as someone who is part of the hiring process at our firm and our client's firm, and they shared that they were themselves passing along the person's resume to the hiring manager and would keep them posted. They then communicated with the applicant that there are other openings in the area that they may be viable for and shared the links of those jobs with this person. So what we have (in writing---the email chain) is a ZipRecruiter person directly reaching out to an applicant and fraudently and intentionally making claims that they are working with my firm and the client hiring manager. They also are intentionally reaching out to this applicant and attempting to steer them to other openings which is something that is not in the contract, nor something I am confident the ZipRecruiter customers are aware that is a common practice. In fact, they are doing things covertly that can be harmful to the hiring efforts of the very customers who are paying them for their service of providing a tool to assist in hiring. If I had not seen this in writing and then had one of their representatives admit it has been going on, I would not believe that this occurs with this firm. I would think this is the perfect scenario for a class action lawsuit. Moreover, I would think this is the very thing that their customers would find more than concerning. This is bad, bad, bad corporate behavior.</p> Interesting Sandra! I post on…tag:recruitingblogs.com,2016-05-12:502551:Comment:19678772016-05-12T05:03:04.261ZBahar Studdardhttps://recruitingblogs.com/profile/BaharStuddard
Interesting Sandra! I post on Zip daily, so tomorrow I am going to apply to my job and see what happens....
Interesting Sandra! I post on Zip daily, so tomorrow I am going to apply to my job and see what happens.... Trust me when I tell you that…tag:recruitingblogs.com,2016-05-11:502551:Comment:19679592016-05-11T23:27:09.218ZSandra McCartthttps://recruitingblogs.com/profile/SandraMcCartt
<p>Trust me when I tell you that it is not now nor has it ever been legal for anybody to use my company name without my authorization.</p>
<p>the rest of it is just low rent, sleazy in my opinion. </p>
<p>Trust me when I tell you that it is not now nor has it ever been legal for anybody to use my company name without my authorization.</p>
<p>the rest of it is just low rent, sleazy in my opinion. </p> Sandra: you're right, there a…tag:recruitingblogs.com,2016-05-11:502551:Comment:19680572016-05-11T22:24:43.417ZMatt Charneyhttps://recruitingblogs.com/profile/MattCharney
<p>Sandra: you're right, there aren't varying degrees of ethics, but what you're describing above would mean from a moral absolute standpoint means that there's not a single vendor in our space with a modicum of morality, so I have to assign some gradation in the absence of any standards of decorum, professionalism or common human decency. But this is all legal, which means as long as capitalism exists, so too will this general shadiness.</p>
<p>Sandra: you're right, there aren't varying degrees of ethics, but what you're describing above would mean from a moral absolute standpoint means that there's not a single vendor in our space with a modicum of morality, so I have to assign some gradation in the absence of any standards of decorum, professionalism or common human decency. But this is all legal, which means as long as capitalism exists, so too will this general shadiness.</p> Well, Matt, let me say this a…tag:recruitingblogs.com,2016-05-11:502551:Comment:19678722016-05-11T20:18:41.100ZSandra McCartthttps://recruitingblogs.com/profile/SandraMcCartt
<p>Well, Matt, let me say this about that. RHI and Aerotek hasn't posted a job under my company name yet. I am not the only one that happened to on this same job. I would suggest that a post showing up associated with my company on LinkedIn and the same job showing up on Glassdoor associated with another recruiting firm (complete with contact info) who did not have the listing is not exactly beating us at our own game. I would suggest to anybody who is paying Zippy to post their positions…</p>
<p>Well, Matt, let me say this about that. RHI and Aerotek hasn't posted a job under my company name yet. I am not the only one that happened to on this same job. I would suggest that a post showing up associated with my company on LinkedIn and the same job showing up on Glassdoor associated with another recruiting firm (complete with contact info) who did not have the listing is not exactly beating us at our own game. I would suggest to anybody who is paying Zippy to post their positions that it would be wise to apply for the job themselves and see what their candidates are seeing.<br/><br/>One of the other joys I discovered is that when Zip posts it on linkedin , a candidate applies, that candidate now has a link to message everybody who works in your company. One recruiter -firm owner, reported that she was using Zip with an additional charge for "boost". One of her employee recruiters sent a candidate to her the owner had received directly but had not had time to contact yet. The applicant had applied for the job through Zip post on LinkedIn that went to the boss, then got a link to one of the recruiters with the firm and sent the resume to that recruiter in addition. The employee recruiter contacted him and referred to her boss asking for commission if the candidate were placed. It was never the intention of the boss to have candidates contacting other recruiters in the firm. It is never the intention of internal recruiting to have candidates given a direct link to every person in their company so the candidate can them shoot resumes all over the company.<br/><br/>"While it's not the most ethical practice" Do we really classify things as ethical, more ethical, not the most ethical. Not in my world.</p> I'm going to stand up for Zip…tag:recruitingblogs.com,2016-05-11:502551:Comment:19677482016-05-11T17:32:21.951ZMatt Charneyhttps://recruitingblogs.com/profile/MattCharney
<p>I'm going to stand up for Zip Recruiter here - this isn't new, and while it's not the most ethical practice, all they're doing is scaling what the RHIs and Aeroteks of the world have been doing for decades. Their entire marketing approach has been B2C, which means that they're actually laying the groundwork for this to be a viable business model by going direct to the hiring managers primarily within the SMB space (and end users like their product, btw) - and it's far less nefarious than the…</p>
<p>I'm going to stand up for Zip Recruiter here - this isn't new, and while it's not the most ethical practice, all they're doing is scaling what the RHIs and Aeroteks of the world have been doing for decades. Their entire marketing approach has been B2C, which means that they're actually laying the groundwork for this to be a viable business model by going direct to the hiring managers primarily within the SMB space (and end users like their product, btw) - and it's far less nefarious than the "HR Tech" companies who do nothing but scrape jobs and make money off PPC margins. It sucks this happened, but I don't know that being an unnecessary intermediary in the hiring process is really anything except recruiting - with a little rusing thrown in, but still, this is just beating staffing at its own game.</p>