Principles for Professional Conduct
for Career Services & Employment Professionals
Career services
and employment professionals are involved in an important
process—helping students choose and attain personally
rewarding careers, and helping employers develop effective
college relations programs which contribute to effective
candidate selections for their organizations. The impact of
this process upon individuals and organizations requires
commitment by practitioners to principles for professional
conduct.
Career services
and employment professionals are involved in this process in
a partnership effort, with a common goal of achieving the
best match between the individual student and the employing
organization. The National Association of Colleges and
Employers (NACE), as the national professional association
for career planning, placement, and recruitment, is also
concerned with this process. The concern led NACE to the
development and adoption of the Principles for
Professional Conduct. The principle presented below is
designed to provide practitioners with a basic precept for
students involved in the recruitment process.
Principles for Students in the
Career Search Process
Career services
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
non-acceptance and withdrawing from the recruiting process
after accepting an offer of employment; interviewing only
with employers for whom students are interested in working
for and whose eligibility requirements they meet; and
requesting reimbursement of only reasonable and legitimate
expenses incurred in the recruitment process.
Accepting a job
offer is a contractual agreement, and students are expected
to honor the commitment. After accepting a job offer,
students are advised to discontinue the job search. It is
not ethical to withdraw the acceptance of any job offer.
The following
are basic guidelines:
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It is
ethical to negotiate in good faith for better terms.
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It is not
ethical to accept a job offer while continuing your
search for another job or waiting for another company to
offer you a better position.
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