Recruitment--Minimum qualifications
CindyH
5 Posts
Am looking for documentation on recruitment that says after the company has advertised a position and receives candidates resume package and the candidate does not meet the minimum qualifications as stated in the ad, what do you do with the candidates package? Normally I send them a letter or email stating they don't meet the minimum qualifications. If we don't find a suitable candidate then we readvertise with lower qualifications. What laws would we be violating if we hired a candidate with qualifications that didn't meet the minimums and there were other candidates that did?
Comments
1. Are the qualifications that you are looking for not THAT important to successfully do the job - so you lower them?
2. Do you do this with all your positions?
3. If you lower the minimum qualifications - then you would already have a candidate pool to select from since you told the previous group that applied they didn't qualify?
2. Readvertising with lower qualifications is not normal. I think we had to a long time ago because candidates with the higher degree could go out in the business world and make more money.
3. This is not normal to lower the qualifications.
>violating if we hired a candidate with
>qualifications that didn't meet the minimums and
>there were other candidates that did?
You could very easily violate Title VII. That's a bad one to violate. Could cost A LOT of money.
My point was if you hire a male/white/christian person that doesn't meet the minimums and you have a black/female/middle eastern/muslim person that meets the minimums, that could be discrimination.