What if you lost your job, and when you start searching for a new one, you were repeatedly turned away from job openings because you were not already currently employed? Sounds a bit ridiculous, right?
Well, CNN Money ran a story recently about a new recruiting trend, where phrases such as "applicant must be currently employed" or "unemployed applicants will not be considered" are cropping up on job descriptions. And even when such explicit statements aren't spelled out, it seems that recruiters give preference to applicants who are currently employed over those applicants that are not.
To me, that's just a lawsuit waiting to happen. If you have a solid potential job applicant, and the only reason he/she is not considered is because he/she isn't currently employed, it feels an awful lot like discrimination.
What are your thoughts? Have any of you run into this kind of situation as a job seeker or as a recruiter/hiring manager?
