Does Their Resume Stack Up ?

It’s a sad fact of life that in 2009 / 2010 few are thorough. Whether it is employers seeking to hire a job candidate or for that matter most of us, we are just so overworked to be complete in our jobs and endeavors. In most cases we “just do not have the time”.

It is downright amazing the people in power and in your employ who simply put may well not have the qualifications and credentials that they stated or overstated just a bit , when you hired them. Its a sad fact that in our tough , if not desperate economic times , that more than one fellow employee has ratted on a colleague, as either a matter of keeping their own position in the firm or organization , or simply wants to advance up the career ladder , by helping to create a job opening. Its often amazing what fellow workers know about each other – either by overhearing at the company annual Christmas party , at the water-cooler or just common knowledge.

Unfortunately with our tough and tougher economic times , and even just plain human ingenuity we also appear to be living in times , where many resumes and job references can be somewhat suspect , if not downright misleading. The sad part is that with the internet and the tools available on hand and on line, the tricksters are getting more and more bold, imaginative and even eccentric. On top of that serious looking documents and documentation can be either had easily and cheaply, revised accordingly and appear downright genuine. It’s a tough and tough world out there. Every interviewer and H.R. department employee has to verify and check, even repeatedly and redundantly. It’s as simple as that.

It comes down to facts and figures. Watch out for excessive flowery language , vague statements , references and dates. Be on the watch for over abundant filler text and words. Combination words can be a tip-off. There was a well known and substantiated case of one highly successful job getter who successfully steamed up the career ladder simply by combining and joining words from rows of columns of words chosen from industry jargon. It seems that no one in the interview process dared admit that they had no idea what so ever what the words meant – and to ask would of admitted defeat in the eyes of their colleagues – stated employment agency consultant manager Kirk U. Stephens.

The statement of “figures do not lie , but liars figger”, unfortunately to a great degree has merit. This is why it is most important that if all possible to reduce as many claims as possible to verifiable facts and supporting documentation. These can be checked. In addition many firms employ a series of interviews to allow full time and effort to check data , facts and documents several times ,and from differing experiences as well as vantage points .

It’s always a matter of simple verification of employers, references and credentials. In this electronic era of simple communications, this is fairly easy and straightforward, Phone, email or fax stated parties to verify references, documentation as well educational records.

In many cases now hiring and hiring errors and mistakes are dealt with on a team basis. A good and effective manager knows that his “job” is to hire good people and candidates for the “team”. Once hired the team takes over. Add a group based efficiency , customer service level and final bottom line profit based and determined reward bonus to the mix. The team on the sale , product or front lines will effectively police and manage the situation and series of events. If after all a serious and thorough evaluation of job application candidates is done, it will be the employee team who will deal with the situation or series of events. In most cases they will demand of the apprentice worker to either shape up or ship out.

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