Does income inequality exist because job applicants trust recruiters?
Recruiters and employers require applicants unconditional trust, yet fail to support how they are unconditionally fair:
- applicants trust that recruiters know what employers are willing to offer prior to advertising
- applicants trust that an advert is a market signal denoting real opportunity and not merely a labour scoping exercise to determine the most vulnerable applicants willing to work for the least
- applicants trust that when a pay range is not published, that it is not to hide an unequal pay vacancy
- applicants trust that recruiters do not contact them simply to conduct market research regarding pay
- applicants trust that recruiters do not use pay information to obstruct an opportunity to discuss the value applicants could bring to an organisation regardless of pay expectations
- applicants trust that employers have priced the job according to validated policies and procedures
- applicants trust that current pay has no bearing on what they can justify and negotiate for within or outside of the employers pay range
- applicants trust that when an offer is made it is compliant with policy and unconditionally fair
