Power Of Reference Check In Advanced Verification Process

By Author: Naman Vohra
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While searching for a potential CXO, do you have specific parameters while judging a candidate in his interview? Are you able match those parameters with the candidate’s personality traits? How do you ensure that you are arriving at the right decision based on the facts stated by candidate?

Information given by a candidate can be false, documents and certificates can be forged, and references might give a manipulated picture. Individuals are prone to do use all sorts of tricks in order to bag a job which is high up in hierarchical ladder! This makes it all the more important to have a verification process in place while recruiting in senior and top level management.

Senior hierarchical roles have a high bearing on a company’s profitability. Thus it is important to make sure that the candidate being recruited after being subjected to advanced background verification has high integrity, is honest and an ideal leader. one check that is capable of bringing out information on a person’s integrity is reference check.

Most of the checks in the advanced background check for top management ...
... are related to confirming the information stated by the prospective leader in details by site visits, like the case with address check, or telephonic conversation or mail exchange, or running his credentials through databases. But reference in advanced background check is little different. Reference checks involves an extensive research to come up with references other than what is stated by the candidate.

Reference checks, as part of an advanced background verification process for senior job roles, are conducted in a discreet manner. Verification specialist digs out multiple references and contacts them to get a feedback on the candidate’s personality traits. Apart from confirming what has been claimed by the candidate, the references are also asked to provide their feedback on the candidate’s integrity, skills and performance.

Intense reference checks play an important role in the background verification for leaders as the check helps in fetching fact-based information from genuine references. When carried out through a third party professional, reference checks acts as an important source of true and valuable information in their compilation of a comprehensive and usable verification report, based on which can a company take a confident hiring decision.

In order to cut the story short, while the primary aim of reference check is to attain additional information abut the candidate, it is not limited to just this. The critical expectations from a leader make the importance of reference check greater, which is to attain genuine and useful information from genuine sources to substantiate the ‘correctness’ of a hiring decision.

~Naman is associated with a leading background screening company that specializes in Executive Screening