Story time again!!
Once Emperor Akbar was riding near a mango grove. An arrow whizzed past him. His soldiers rushed to the grove and caught the person who did this. He was a young boy. On asking why he had wanted to kill the Emperor, he said that he did not want to kill the Emperor, he just wanted to knock down a mango from a high branch.
The Emperor was too angry to listen to him. He ordered to put him to death in the same way as the boy had attempted to kill him.
A soldier tied the boy with a tree stump and steadied his arrow to kill him. Birbal, who was watching all this process quietly so far, now shouted, “This is not fair. If you want to shoot him in the same way as he tried to shoot the Emperor, then you will have to aim for a mango. And then the arrow has to miss the mango and strike the boy.”
Akbar had calmed down by now. Realizing that it was unfair to the boy, he ordered his soldiers to release the boy. Thus Birbal saved that innocent boy.
Anyone can miss the target and anyone can make a hasty wrong decision. Isn’t it? But Birbal might not be present to handle the situation at all times! We talk so much about the need for background verification and its benefits. But have we looked it from the other side? From the side of a candidate who was not offered the job, after background verification. Worst scenario, where a genuine candidate gets rejected due to faulty results in background verification?
Let’s consider Akbar as the hiring company. Mangoes, the candidates and the little boy – background verification company.
Well, if the background verification company goes wrong, a good candidate is lost by the company and it is nothing but a big loss. Of course, Birbal or the re-verification request or law, is not there to save the candidate at all times.
Errors can happen and the more common errors can be:
Same names mistakes
Names with different spellings
Misinterpretation of the facts laid on face value
To handle all the situations above, all a background verifier needs is – expertise, experience and extensive networking. To have a 100% accurate background verification system, the background verification company needs to be an ace shooter and not a little boy, who misses the aim. Errors are excuse of weak. Leader sets examples.
There are many background verification agencies, but it is responsibility of the company to choose nothing but the best or bear the unseen, unspoken and unpredictable loss!
