post #6

I have a question for recruiters: if a company you're working with has an illegal hiring bias, do you think it's your responsibility to educate them on why they shouldn't be doing that? Or do you say nothing and just look for candidates that fall outside of the hiring bias?

I'm asking because after a couple of emails with a recruiter going back and forth about a job that the recruiter felt that I would be a strong candidate for, we had a virtual meeting this morning where the recruiter pretty quickly announced that they thought I was too old for the position. I actually thought I misheard them, so I asked if they could repeat what they had said. They said what I thought they did. Unreal.

Now, I have no problem with dodging a bullet (which clearly this is), but the recruiter tried to make it seem like it was the company who was in the wrong because it was their bias, and the recruiter was just following directions. Don't they have an obligation to let the company know what they're doing is illegal?