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Verify & Check Job Applicants References Credentials

Nov 3, 2009 Business Management

Does a job seekers resume jive with their background and employment history. It behooves the interviewers or full set of those involved in the hiring process to dig deeper . Trust but verify are the watchwords.

Its not only in the workplace does “cheating” occur. It is almost endemic in the university and college circuits as well. Everyone wants to “get ahead”. Marks and educational documentation and record means everything. And after all “everyone is doing it”.

Tales abound . One young and foolish manager filled a position quickly due to a reference from an applicant’s priest and spiritual leader. It seemed that this young initiate behaved and dressed most inappropriately at a major international sales and planning meeting. The manager later tried to explain away his rapid decision making by stating that ” he had needed to fill the roster for the upcoming event”. After all his team had to be no smaller than any of his other managers at his executive status level. It seemed in later followup and analysis that the reference from the applicant’s priest had not been verified and checked. When the verification process was done , at a much later date, it seemed that the reference from the priest was that overall the candidate lacked maturity in most intellectual forms. The sad part is that in the heat of all this activity that the real incompetent in this matter was not the candidate but rather the management level decision makers who went on not only to bury their errors, but went well up the corporate ladder. It seems that those who cannot do simple tasks in a thorough manner often travel up high in management and corporate circles states Ashdown scholar William U. Simpson.

It comes down to facts and figures. Watch out for excessive flowery language , vague statements , references and dates. Be on the watch for over abundant filler text and words. Combination words can be a tip-off. There was a well known and substantiated case of one highly successful job getter who successfully steamed up the career ladder simply by combining and joining words from rows of columns of words chosen from industry jargon. It seems that no one in the interview process dared admit that they had no idea what so ever what the words meant – and to ask would of admitted defeat in the eyes of their colleagues – stated employment agency consultant manager Kirk U. Stephens.

The statement of “figures do not lie , but liars figger”, unfortunately to a great degree has merit. This is why it is most important that if all possible to reduce as many claims as possible to verifiable facts and supporting documentation. These can be checked. In addition many firms employ a series of interviews to allow full time and effort to check data , facts and documents several times ,and from differing experiences as well as vantage points .

It’s always a matter of simple verification of employers, references and credentials. In this electronic era of simple communications, this is fairly easy and straightforward, Phone, email or fax stated parties to verify references, documentation as well educational records.

In the end it can be said that thoroughness and inquiry in the hiring process can go a long way to saving time , expended effort and ultimately profitability to any business firm and its departments. Its an exercise well worth its effort and expenditure in time and money and resources.

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