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How to Sort Resume Fact From Fiction
Making the right hire–and quickly–takes a lot of work. Our pre-employment platform is designed to lighten the load and help you make quality hires that are more likely to stick around.
Welcome back to America Back to Work–a series that explores current labor trends and unpacks the state of hiring today. This week, on the blog, we’ve been covering another big issue in recruiting, hiring, and HR: lying on resumes.
On Monday, we discussed the prevalence of lying on resumes and when to draw the line. On Wednesday, we dug into why candidates lie and shared our top tips for bolstering your hiring process to protect your business from deceitful candidates.
Today, we’re sharing the top tools and services for fact-checking resumes and thoroughly screening candidates–inspired by our very own pre-employment platform.
Employment Screening Solution Must-Haves
When looking for a quality employment screening solution, be sure it has these key features and functionality to ensure you can properly spot resume lies.
- Background Checks
Your employment screening solution should help you pull detailed information around social security identification, criminal history, driving records, credit reports, and more–quickly and easily. Our background check tool grants you access to local, state, and federal databases so you have the info you need at speed.
- Employment Verifications
Hire the right professional by using a screening solution with built-in tools for confirming employment history. With S2Verify, references are checked via electronic verification resources or via direct calls to the applicant’s contacts—an approach that delivers industry-leading turnaround times (so you can keep hiring cycles moving).
- Education Verifications
A quick way to tell if a candidate is telling the truth: check their provided education information. Our Education Verification can confirm the dates of attendance and the degree earned with the accredited school either electronically or by phone—whatever gets you the results you need in the shortest amount of time.
- Professional License Verifications (If Applicable)
Professional license verifications are an essential part of successfully screening a candidate for jobs that require a license to practice the profession: healthcare, finance, education, etc. In these industries, it’s on the employers to ensure their employees have maintained the appropriate license to practice the profession.
A best-in-class professional license verification can include the issue date, issuing state or agency, expiration date, and license status—everything you need to ensure the candidate’s credentials are up to date.
Plus, it will automatically keep applicants informed throughout the screening process, helping you deliver an experience that’s quick, easy, and transparent (while protecting your business).
- Quality Customer Support
Hiring is a human business. You need an employment screening solution backed by real people so you can feel good about the screening technology you’re using and, accordingly, the hires you’re making. With S2Verify, you can access more than 4,100 government sources online with reliable results using our hybrid process that includes automated record extraction and human oversight. Our award-winning customer service team is there for you every step of the way to help you on your way to making a quality hire that’s been fully vetted.