Question

strategic HR:

should a company give to those who present CVs and resumes....are they always to be understood as 100% correct?...how are they "fact checked"?

Answer 1

In many cases a CV or a resume may not carry 100 percentage right information.

Hence before hiring, an organisation has to cross check or fact check these informations presented in the CV through below ways.

- Initial Screening: Once the CV is received by the recruiter, an initial screening is always made through telephonic conversations with the candidate in order to check if the candidate is able to recite same information as in the CV. If recruiter has any concern the CV gets rejected at the first level itself.

- Skill assessment: One more fact checking way is through skill assessment tests, wherein the candidate may pass or fail according to his skills. If the candidate has lied in the resume he may not pass the skill assessment test.

- Body language: If the candidate passes through the above stages, an expert recruiter would catch hold of a candidate in the personal interview stage where in body language plays a major role.

- Background verification: This is a stage where the recruiter sends all the information collected from the candidate for a through background verification check. This can be done through internal recruiters or through third party agents. These agents will call all the previous companies, college etc to verify if the candidate has presented only the truth