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What Actually Shows Up In An Employment Verification Check - YouTube
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Hey there, cultivator! Welcome
come back to my channel!
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Have you ever wondered what exactly
gets verified during the employment
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verification process? After
you've accepted an offer letter?
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I have a lot of job seekers who come
to me and they get really concerned and
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worried because they omitted
information on their resume.
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Maybe they found themselves
laid off or they got fired,
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or they found themselves in a
position less than six months.
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And they're worried about being perceived
as a job hopper or perhaps it just
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wasn't a good fit.
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And they're worried that when the future
organization calls upon these past
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employers, they aren't necessarily
going to be singing their praises.
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So they're wondering,
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is it okay to leave off certain
employment information when it comes down
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to the wire. In this video,
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I'll be breaking down exactly what the
employment verification is and why it's
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so important to employers. And then we'll
talk about exactly what gets verified.
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Let's talk about what the employment
verification process is and why it's so
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important to employers. So up until now,
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you probably are a stranger
to this new organization.
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They may have never
worked with you before,
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and they have to take what you've
put out there and represented as face
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value because they don't know you.
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And because we've all heard of those
tales in the past where, you know,
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a CEO has been fired or let go,
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because they lied about the university
that they attended or completely made up
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a degree.
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A lot of companies just want to know that
they can trust you for who it is that
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you say you are.
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And so the best way to do this is with
an employment verification process.
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So let's switch gears here and talk
about what is happening on the backend.
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So you've accepted the offer.
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Now it's time to go through the employment
verification process and either the
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company has had an application that
you've already filled out online.
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You've signed it. You've said all of
this is accurate and true. And boom,
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like that is what they're going to use
to verify the information as they call
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the different companies and
schools that you attended. Now,
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a lot of times companies also outsource
this part to companies such as
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HireRight, which is a very popular one.
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And sometimes those companies will have
you fill out your own profile all over
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again, or fill out an application.
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And so that's what they're going to be
using to verify what you've submitted is
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accurate and complete.
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The important thing to note here is that
they're not verifying your resume or
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your LinkedIn profile. At the end of
the day, those are marketing tools.
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You're marketing yourself a certain way.
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It's not necessarily this legally
binding documents that the applications
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are. So just FYI, because I get a lot
of those questions from job seekers.
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Do I need to include this? I was
there for a short stint or, you know,
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my titles don't necessarily match up,
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or I clustered all of these
jobs together. That's okay.
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Your resume and your LinkedIn are very
separate from what is actually being
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verified. So switching gears to
what is being verified, essentially,
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when a company is calling
your previous employers,
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they want to verify three things. One,
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did you actually indeed work for this
company? And what was your title?
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What was your dates of employment? When
did you start to, when did you end?
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And a fourth that sometimes gets
asked is, are you eligible for rehire?
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And that's a yes or no question.
When it comes to education,
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what is typically being verified
is you actually graduated from the
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college and university
that you said you did.
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What was the years that you attended
and what was the degree that you walked
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away with? And sometimes what is
the GPA that you graduated with?
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So knowing that these are the key
pieces that are being verified,
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you want to make sure that whatever you're
including on the application is 100%
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accurate to what they're going to hear
on the other side of the phone when they
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verify. If you're not entirely sure,
you're fuzzy about some details.
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You're unclear about the last official
title that you had at the company,
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pick up the phone and call HR and let
them know, you know, here's my situation.
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I want to make sure that during
the employment verification,
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what I've submitted is accurate.
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Can you tell me the answers to these
following questions? So just to recap,
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at the end of the day,
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all they're doing is verifying what
you have submitted in terms of the
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information.
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And they're verifying that what you
have submitted is 100% accurate to what
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they've obtained. And if there's any
misinformation, there's any discrepancies,
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there's going to be a
red flag in your file.
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And basically they're going to start
examining your background under a
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microscope. So to avoid all
of that and eliminate that,
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you just want to make sure that
your facts is 100% true and you'll
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avoid any delays in the
hiring process. Again,
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this is all companies really have to
go off of to understand whether or not
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you're representing yourself accurately.
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You just want to make sure that you're
putting your best foot forward in the
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process. I hope you found this video
helpful. If you liked it and enjoyed it,
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