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Pitfalls of Education Verification

Gordon Basichis has written an informative article on Recrutingblogs.com:

While employers have long conducted education verification checks on their employment candidates, it appears that increasingly more staffing and recruiting groups are being made responsible for conducting this and other background checks as part of the employment screening process.

Education history, of course, outside of criminal records, is one of the more significant searches.   For many positions,  education is not just a prerequisite but also vital to employment candidate’s incumbent skill sets and the legitimacy they bring to the job. Those employment recruits who claim to but who do not possess the required skills can cause untold embarrassment to employer or recruiter alike.  Both can lose clients over it, and in the extreme cases incur law suits.   Read the whole article at:  http://www.recruitingblogs.com/profiles/blogs/the-process-and-pitfalls-of

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