#RecruiterGoneWild: Have you ever had a recruiter make fun of your skills and interview performance on social media? 🤔 It’s shocking how some professionals can be so unprofessional! 😱 Just had an interview with a company that requires Security Clearance and found out their employees were mocking applicants in their work chats. Should I report this to HR or the department director? What would you do? Share your thoughts below! 👇 #UnbelievableBehavior #UnprofessionalRecruiter #HRNightmare
Reach out to the recruiter and tell him to cease and desist or you will reach out to his company’s HRD
Just let it go. If the recruiter is really doing this, then someone from their company will eventually find out and they will get reprimanded or fired.
Email the person who posted it with screenshots of their posts, and add on whoever you’ve found; HR director, department head, whoever you’ve got. Without knowing what exactly they’re sharing this is at best very inappropriate and deserving of a write up, and at worst, they are publicly sharing private information about a candidate, which as far as I know is illegal.
“Letting it go” like the other commenters have suggested is crazy to me. If you do nothing, the recruiter will continue doing it.
This is appalling behavior. I’m sorry this happened to you.
First – this absolutely sucks and I’m so sorry you’re the brunt of other people’s mean spirited antics.
That said, I’m going to ask a couple of qualifiers; did this person post these things on their LinkedIn page or anything that would associate them with the company? Did they include any personally identifying information about you?
The reason I ask is because if you went looking for this person’s Facebook or IG account and they had posted these exchanges without attributing them to you or their company in any way, then they’re practically memes, where only you and the involved parties know that there was any truth to them. In that case, tattling isn’t really going to accomplish anything as this is literally the basis of all internet humour. Companies don’t really have any teeth when it comes to their ability to police personal socials.
If it’s posted on LinkedIn or anything else that would be associated with the company’s employer presence however, definitely sending a “hey this isn’t cool” message to their HR team would, hopefully, stop this unprofessional nastiness in its tracks. I believe you can also leave a review of their interview process on Glassdoor. Again, I wouldn’t reference this incident if it was on their personal accounts, but if it’s associated with the employer presence, have at her!!
Job seeking is hard enough. Having your dignity publicly eroded is just poor form.
Sincerely,
A Humanist Recruiter
Wow. How unprofessional and probably illegal.
Can you email the receipts to HR letting them know?
I make fun of candidates on social media. I do it in a way that doesn’t divulge their identity and has a lesson attached. For instance, I post LinkedIn messages that are 100% generated by AI as a way to show other people who are looking for interviews that genAI crap isn’t going to help you land an interview.
Your post doesn’t include the details of the posts, just that they “made fun” of interview skills, whatever that means.
If you want to email people, go for it. Pro tip: don’t include a url in the first message, it’ll likely go to spam.
First time interacting with recruiters? You have to remember a lot of recruiters don’t have any hard skills, and they may or may not have soft skills. You can bypass them by going directly to companies if they are being unfair. Just takes some research.
It’s better to be magnanimous to them, you only have to deal with them once every 5 years or so.