There is a great demand for the right people across all lines of employment. The economy is rebounding but this time around many companies are cautious and weary of hiring candidates that lack the right aptitude and the background to get the job done. The hire and fire in mass concept has given way to a more stable and long term relationship building employee-employer dynamics. The crux for this relation being trust.
In today’s job market an employee is hired based on his qualification, his likability factor and the employer’s gut instincts. Most of the factors considered in hiring are subjective and are open to errors. The next logical step in providing a seamless hiring process and qualifying candidates before the interviews would be a standardized employee verification system.
As more and more companies rely on employee background checks to help select and finalize a candidate, the more the need to create a standard for background checks. At present the depth of checks done on a candidate’s past varies from company to company. This leads to a partial and at times flawed approach to employee background verification. As demand for the employee verification services increases only the best of these service providers will prevail.
Standardization of the employee verification services may even lead to these checks being a pre-requisite for all candidates applying for a job. The candidates in essence would need to approach the background verification companies and get their resumes, educational qualifications verified before applying to a job. This theory may sound radical but it may be a reality in the plausible future. A similar example can be drawn from the account verification service that social media platform like Facebook and Twitter provide to ascertain whether a given profile is that of the said celebrity or not.
There needs to be a continuous endeavor on behalf of the background verification companies to develop a standard that provides for the most prolific background checks. As these simple background checks of today can become the Badge of Trust for tomorrow.
Very true , a quick and a standard verification procedure is the need of the hour. Most companies take an entire month or more to conduct background verification at times. Instead if there is a standard, predetermined quick procedure, things would be much quicker, and easier for the candidates on hold , as well.