Finding out that the resume is fake during later stages of recruitment undermines the credibility of your HR competencies. Maybe this is not relevant for indian organisations but here is what we do:
Maybe these help:
Some organisations are inherently churning out fake experience certificates, talk with people who have been in the industry and slowly gain more insights into organsiations.
There are those who want to put projects done during academic degree as experience. See if the academic degree is full time, and if so, question those experiences that were done during this course.
Some of the cv con-men have become smarter, they use functional CV to hide the number of years and experience. I have always been pretty sceptic about functional cvs that are not backed by list of employees, and position.
Look at the positions the person has worked in and see if it makes sense.
In terms of education, there are tendencies of individuals to put the 'ongoing' courses. So look out for the word ongoing.
Look out for multiple experiences during same or similar timeframe.
Look out for sudden gaps in experience, cv is cooked often when the gap is long.
Look out for those experineces that say 1 year, 2 year rather than the year itself (1999-2003). Not specifying year means something is smelling.
But all in all, it is only experience that makes you screen out the fake ones.
I generally give benefit of the doubt to the applicant if my information is not triangulated: meaning there has to be more than one shady or suspicious elements in the cv.
the one who took interview was smart. It is indeed a thought provoking question.
Shalav Risal
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www.bikalp.com
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