Principles for Employment Professionals

Employment professionals will refrain from any practice that improperly influences and affects job acceptances. Such practices may include undue time pressure for acceptance of employment offers and encouragement of revocation of another employment offer. Employment professionals will strive to communicate decisions to candidates within the agreed-upon time frame.

Employment professionals will know the recruitment and career development field as well as the industry and the employing organization that they represent, and work within a framework of professionally accepted recruiting, interviewing, and selection techniques.

Employment professionals will supply accurate information on their organization and employment opportunities. Employing organizations are responsible for information supplied and commitments made by their representatives. If conditions change and require the employing organization to revoke its commitment, the employing organization will pursue a course of action for the affected candidate that is fair and equitable.

Neither employment professionals nor their organizations will expect, or seek to extract, special favors or treatment which would influence the recruitment process as a result of support, or the level of support, to the educational institution or Career Center office in the form of contributed services, gifts, or other financial support.

Serving alcohol should not be part of the recruitment process.

Employment professionals will maintain equal employment opportunity (EEO) compliance and follow affirmative action principles in recruiting activities in a manner that includes the following:

Recruiting, interviewing, and hiring individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, or disability, and providing reasonable accommodations upon request;

Reviewing selection criteria for adverse impact based upon the student's race, color, national origin, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, or disability;

Avoiding use of inquiries that are considered unacceptable by EEO standards during the recruiting process;

Developing a sensitivity to, and awareness of, cultural differences and the diversity of the work force;

Informing campus constituencies of special activities that have been developed to achieve the employer's affirmative action goals;

Investigating complaints forwarded by the Career Center office regarding EEO noncompliance and seeking resolution of such complaints.

Employment professionals will maintain the confidentiality of student information, regardless of the source, including personal knowledge, written records/reports, and computer data bases. There will be no disclosure of student information to another organization without the prior written consent of the student, unless necessitated by health and/or safety considerations.

Those engaged in administering, evaluating, and interpreting assessment tools, tests, and technology used in selection will be trained and qualified to do so. Employment professionals must advise the Career Center office of any test conducted on campus and eliminate such a test if it violates campus policies. Employment professionals must advise students in a timely fashion of the type and purpose of any test that students will be required to take as part of the recruitment process and to whom the test results will be disclosed. All tests will be reviewed by the employing organization for disparate impact and job-relatedness.

When using organizations that provide recruiting services for a fee, employment professionals will respond to inquiries by the Career Center office regarding this relationship and the positions the organization was contracted to fill. This principle applies equally to any other form of recruiting that is used as a substitute for the traditional employer/student interaction.

When employment professionals conduct recruitment activities through student associations or academic departments, such activities will be conducted in accordance with the policies of the Career Center office.

Employment professionals will cooperate with the policies and procedures of the Career Center office, including certification of EEO compliance or exempt status under the Immigration Reform and Control Act, and will honor scheduling arrangements and recruitment commitments.

Employment professionals recruiting for international operations will do so according to EEO standards. Employment professionals will advise the Career Center office and students of the realities of working in that country and of any cultural or foreign law differences.

Employment professionals will educate and encourage acceptance of these principles throughout their employing institution and by third parties representing their employing organization on campus, and will respond to reports of noncompliance.

Principles for Career Service Professionals

Career Center professionals, without imposing personal values or biases, will assist individuals in developing a career plan or making a career decision.

Career Center professionals will know the Career Center field and the educational institution and students they represent, and will have appropriate counseling skills.

Career Center professionals will provide students with information on a range of career opportunities and types of employing organizations. They will inform students of the means and resources to gain access to information which may influence their decisions about an employing organization. Career Center professionals will also provide employing organizations with accurate information about the educational institution and its students and about the recruitment policies of the Career Center office.

Career Center professionals will provide generally comparable services to all employers, regardless of whether the employers contribute services, gifts, or financial support to the educational institution or office and regardless of the level of such support.

Career Center professionals will establish reasonable and fair guidelines for access to services by employers. When guidelines permit access to organizations recruiting on behalf of an employer and to international employers, the following principles will apply:

Organizations providing recruiting services for a fee will be required to inform Career Center of the specific employer they represent and the specific jobs for which they are recruiting, and will permit verification of the information. Third-party recruiters that charge fees to students will not be permitted access to Career Center;

Employers recruiting for work outside of the United States are expected to adhere to the equal employment opportunity (EEO) policy of the
Career Center office. They will advise the Career Center office and the students of the realities of working in that country and of any cultural and foreign law differences.

Career Center professionals will maintain EEO compliance and follow affirmative action principles in Career Center activities in a manner that includes the following:

Referring all interested students for employment opportunities without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, or disability, and providing reasonable accommodations upon request;

Notifying employing organizations of any selection procedures that appear to have an adverse impact based upon the student's race, color, national origin, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, or disability;

Assisting recruiters in accessing certain groups on campus to provide a more inclusive applicant pool;

Informing all students about employment opportunities, with particular emphasis on those employment opportunities in occupational areas where certain groups of students are underrepresented;

Developing awareness of, and sensitivity to, cultural differences and the diversity of students, and providing responsive services;

Responding to complaints of EEO noncompliance, working to resolve such complaints with the recruiter or employing organization, and, if necessary, referring such complaints to the appropriate campus department or agency.

Any disclosure of student information outside of the educational institution will be with prior consent of the student unless health and/or safety considerations necessitate the dissemination of such information. Career Center professionals will exercise sound judgment and fairness in maintaining the confidentiality of student information, regardless of the source, including written records, reports, and computer data bases.

Only qualified personnel will evaluate or interpret tests of a career planning and placement nature. Students will be informed of the availability of testing, the purpose of such tests, and the disclosure policies regarding test results.

If the charging of fees for Career Center becomes necessary, such fees will be appropriate to the budgetary needs of the office and will not inder student or employer access to services. Career Center professionals are encouraged to counsel student and university organizations engaged in recruitment activities to follow this principle.

Career Center professionals will advise students about their obligations in the recruitment process and establish mechanisms to encourage their compliance. Students' obligations include providing accurate information; adhering to schedules; accepting an offer of employment in good faith; notifying employers on a timely basis of an acceptance or nonacceptance and withdrawing from the recruiting process after accepting an offer f employment; interviewing only with employers for whom students are interested in working and whose eligibility requirements they meet; and requesting reimbursement of only reasonable and legitimate expenses incurred in the recruitment process.

Career Center professionals will provide services to international students consistent with U.S. immigration laws; inform those students about these laws; represent the reality of the available job market in the United States; encourage pursuit of only those employment opportunities in the United States that meet the individual's work authorization; and encourage pursuit of eligible international employment opportunities.

Career Center professionals will promote and encourage acceptance of these principles throughout their educational institution, and will respond to reports of noncompliance.