Education Verification Significance– A Brief Insight!

Facing a legal litigation due to negligent hiring can be the biggest nightmare for any employer. It is largely assumed by the ones in business that during recruitment process, candidates might exaggerate and out-and-out lie about their education. This can impose a serious threat to the establishment as you don’t know that the person who has been interviewed by your HR manager may appeared bright and communicative in the interview but in real he has well invented his education and don’t actually have those qualifications.

Just to reveal how easy it is to find, purchase and avail a bogus degree to advance in my career field, I surfed on the internet and within 5 minutes I found a site which can award me “Masters” degree in 500$. This disclosed that the probability of faking an education is high in today’s corporate mainstream. In most cases, candidate’s statement of higher education isn’t certainly a complete invention. He may have enrolled himself in that university which he listed on his resume but didn’t achieve graduation from that very university or any other one. And sometimes, the candidate never got enrolled in the stated university. Here, the employer faces problem to identify whether the claimed education is true or a fake one.

Some stats about diploma mills:
According to Wikipedia, currently there are over 300 unaccredited colleges, universities and establishments offering fake diplomas in the United States of America. The statistics indicate an intense requirement of education verification. Screeners estimate that about 200,000 bogus degrees are awarded to the people all over the world on annual basis.

A renowned Wired Magazine broke news in the year 2003-2004 about fraudulent degrees and revealed that when Government Accountability office is USA surveyed only a few of agencies, they found 463 federal employees with fake degrees.

So, no matter how trustworthy a candidate appears in the interview, a pre-employment check is something that should be considered as crucial. Including education verification as a part of the recruitment program will surely cost you some bucks but getting your candidate’s degree verified will definitely save your precious time, plenty of money, potential litigation and humiliation issues.

Will Education Verification Makes a Difference?
Yes, it surely does. The core benefit of education verification is, it will help you to avoid the candidates claiming fake degrees and higher education which can bring shame to your organization and pose a great threat. As a matter of fact, there are a lot of phony universities who sell graduate, Bachelors and Masters Degrees for certain price. Ranging from a few bucks to thousands of dollars, these diploma mills offer fake degrees to people who wish to sustain their credibility by faking their education.

For that matter, if you will hire a candidate with fake education claim you are actually jeopardizing your relationship with the clients and other employees. For instance, if you have assigned that employee to handle the client and he screw things up due to lack of knowledge, the client can become extremely unhappy and you may face a litigation issue.
So, education verification actually brings a number of benefits to the employer as they can be double-sure of their candidate’s higher education and his track record in the university.

How Background Check Group Can Help?
Background check group is a leading screening company based in Singapore. Our Education Verification program is smartly designed to cater the needs of our clients and provide fast, accurate and cost-effective service. Background check group has earned number of accreditation from several professional screeners and have an extensive range of association with different organizations which speeds up our verification processes. Education verification is a cost-effective solution for our valued customers to bring them out of agony of verifying their candidates’ credentials.