8. Overview of Program

 Please give a brief description of the initiative, in one or two sentences.

CACEE Ethical Recruitment Guidelines offer suggested best practices on how the process of campus recruitment should function on a national basis. The Guidelines also offer recommendations for how transgressions should be managed.
9. Why Developed / Problems / Issues Targeted What are the main aims or objectives of the initiative? Is it designed to address any particular problems or issues? If so, please specify what these are.

The objective of the CACEE Ethical Recruitment Guidelines program is to provide a framework for the professional relationships between employers, students, third party recruiters and career educators. In practice they ensure that students in their final year of study have access to a full range of employment/career opportunities and offers prior to accepting an offer from a specific employer. When campus recruitment is extremely competitive, employers seeking to attract top talent may ‘push’ students to accept a position prior to that student receiving all potential offers. With the current war for talent and US employers recruiting at Canadian institutions, the requirement for updated Guidelines became increasingly important. The CACEE Ethical Recruitment Guidelines identify time lines for recruitment that will allow students to interview, and receive all offers of employment prior to making a decision.

10. Key Features / Content

  • Innovative
  • Effective
  • Promising
 Please describe the main features of the program, focusing in particular on those aspects that are particularly innovative, effective or promising.

The main features of the program include a framework for the most effective timelines for campus recruitment as follows:

  • Information sessions should begin no earlier than the first Monday following Labour Day
  • On-campus interviews should begin no earlier than the first business day in October
  • Full-time job offers to students attracted via on-campus recruitment should have a minimum of 2 weeks for an acceptance deadline or until the first business day in November, whichever is the later.
  • Job offers to summer students are not subject to any minimum acceptance day rules; however, it is recommended that a minimum of 1 week to be provided for job acceptance offer

Guidelines management:

  • When scheduling on-campus recruitment activities, both employers and career educators should respect dates of religious and cultural significance.
  • Guidelines should be determined and managed locally.
  • Penalties for non-compliance should be:
    • Determined locally,
    • Have local jurisdiction, be relative to the associated infraction; and
    • Clearly indicated to employers, well in advance of the recruitment season.
    • In the event of an unresolved dispute between parties engaged in on-campus recruitment, CACEE members are invited to refer the matter, and any identified penalties, to the CACEE Ethics Committee for review and recommendation.