Social networks and recruitment : Alphéa Conseil recruitment agency makes a commitment
Alphéa Conseil s’engage......
We are witnessing à the multiplication and successès of various social networks, blogs, which put online a certain amount of personal information accessible à all.... Candidates à l’embauche : méfiance !
Près 45% of recruiters admit to going toès all social networks to « track » potential candidates and find out about their private livesée... Numerous examples are illustratedés in Christine Balagué and David Fayon's latest book « Facebook, Twitter et les autres ».
With this in mind, the « A compétence égale » association (association créée in 2006 représentant à ce jour 800 professionnels du recrutement auprès de grands groupes ou de PME en France), a publiéé « une Charte réseaux sociaux, internet, vie privée et recrutement » which asks recruiters (recruitment agencies, job boards) not to turn to all these fashionable social networks, while guaranteeing their éthique professionnelle quant à l'utilisation d’internet et des réseaux sociaux dans le recrutement.
This Charter has été been validatedée by some twenty partners including APEC, ANDRH, Cadr’emploi, Viadéo.....as well as Alphéa Conseil.
The selection of candidates should be based solely on qualifications and compétences, excluding any criteria of a personal and private natureé...
The use of professional réseaux (such as Viadéo or Linkedln) should êthen be privilegedégiée. Designed to create useful professional links, users of these networks canétake care à about the nature of the information they disseminate and the choice of people à to whom they grant accessès.... Not to mention the fact that they can assert their right to à digital oblivionérique by deleting à at any time certain dataées too personal....
This charter makes it possible, among other things, to protect épotential candidates from any intrusion into their private sphere ée and thus to éavoid certain increasingly frequent forms of discrimination....
Thus, we are witnessing à a respect for the professional ethic, which consists à in taking into account, during the recruitment process, the candidatesécompetences and nothing but the candidatesécompetences.....while adapting to the context of a constantly éevolving web...... Intelligently integrating social networkséinto a corporate strategy can be an interesting solution for everyone.....
Ludovic D’HOOGHE
Director, Alphea Conseil
