Consider this complaint from an ethics professor:

I make my living teaching and writing about ethics. . . . But in our own world—in our departments of philosophy and religious studies and medical humanities and ethics institutes—what happens?

• Job openings [for instructors] are announced for positions that are already earmarked for specific persons. . . . [O]ver half the positions announced in the official employment newsletter for the American Academy of Religion were not “real.”

• It is extremely common for letters of application, even those responding to announced openings, to go without acknowledgment.

• There are numerous instances of candidates who are brought to campus for interviews and who wait in vain to hear anything from their prospective employers. When the candidates finally call, embarrassed but desperate, they are told, “Oh, that position has been filled.”

Do recruiters have any ethical obligations to job candidates?