Background Checking of prospective Candidate : Trust the current / previous employer
Are you an Employer who is all set to hire some fresh employees to give your business the much needed expansion. You could also be a recruiter hiring on behalf of your clients. Let us assume that you have finished the first round of candidate screening. You now have some good candidates and the task at hand is to cross check the information mentioned in the candidate’s CV. How do you do it? Online candidate background analysis is a very good option. Apart from that we have a very straight forward and highly accurate source of gathering information about the candidate, which we normally overlook.
The current or previous employer.
Yes they are the answer to all our questions about the prospective candidate. Since our would-be candidate has been with them for quite a some time they would know him better than any search engine. The practice in Industry is to send a small form, pre-filled with information provided by candidate, to be verified by the previous employer. Normally it is addressed to concerned HR personnel or the direct authority to which the Candidates was reporting to.
This method of background verification has some genuine advantages, eg :
- You could get the exact CTC.
- Information on Employee behavior and work style.
- Address and Guardians’ information.
- Would not allow the candidate to dishonor Notice Periods.
In some cases, candidates get fake letters and certificates done to scrap through the selection process. This method is hard to beat for fraud candidates. All you need to do is get the phone number of the concerned people talk to them about the process and ask them to spare some time and verify you little form.