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December 20, 2021For HR recruiters, any date could be April Fool’s Day. While talent selection is crucial to discovering amazing people who can bring great value to the company, there are also those who detract from productivity and even those who can become a potential risk.
Fake resumes
“According to data from Expansión: La Claves para detectar un Curriculum Falso, almost half of the resumes have false or inaccurate data in order to show skills or a preparation that the candidate has not gone through. Many candidates seek to stand out from the competition in a variety of ways, and they don’t always do it in the healthiest way.
As an HR professional, developing the expertise to read a CV is a matter of practice, but also of being attentive to detail. Avoid ranking candidates by their academic achievements, as you could miss other options of people who could contribute to the company with their professional experience, however, check that the academic data is real, as well as the other information.
Discover what you don’t manage to see
Data and more data. Resumes allow you to analyze a candidate’s information but it also says a lot about the person that you can’t read in their credentials. The candidate may omit information that he or she doesn’t want you to know-and it’s certainly not a graduate degree. Therefore, it is important that you rely on tools that allow you to see all aspects of a candidate and give you better weapons to make decisions when filtering talent.
From reviewing the employment history in the IMSS, as well as the legal history that the person may have, processing all this data will not be an easy task and the more you can know the candidate by processing the available information, the more successfully you can integrate the talent; in this way you will be able to perform background check to both candidates and third parties related to your company allows you to have better working relationships and less risk.
If you decided to do this process manually, it would be too large and complex an operation, so having implementations that allow you to automate processes and analyze data will take you to the next level in your HR strategy and recruitment system.
“That company I worked for has already closed down, and I don’t have a contact”
While many stories are true, detect when a school project is disguised as work experience, interviews are a turning point where you can further clarify information. Remember that one thing is not everything, psychometric tests will also help you to know the competencies and behaviors of your candidate. So both the interviews and test data will continue to broaden the picture to place the right talent in the vacancy and prevent you from falling into traps and pitches.
What is definitely not a lie is that the resources: time, money and effort of obtaining, processing and analyzing candidate information can be a lot if you wanted to do this manually. So if you’ve fallen for any of these lies, the issue may be that you’re not using the right tools – you can’t cut a piece of wood with a mixer.