{"id":431,"date":"2006-11-09T13:13:57","date_gmt":"2006-11-09T19:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=431"},"modified":"2006-11-09T13:13:08","modified_gmt":"2006-11-09T19:13:08","slug":"verification-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/11\/verification-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Verification Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You have seen multiple posts from us here at <em>The Hire Sense<\/em> on background verification and it&#8217;s importance in the hiring process.  This morning as I was scanning through some online content, I came across some statistics from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.verifiedcredentials.com\/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Verified Credentials<\/a> on verification discrepancies.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>10%<\/strong> of criminal background searches contain discrepancies<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><strong>18.42%<\/strong> of academic verifications contain discrepancies<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><strong>41.07%<\/strong> of employment verifications contain discrepancies<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><strong>4.17%<\/strong> of professional license verifications contain discrepancies<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><strong>1%<\/strong> of personal reference checks contain discrepancies<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><strong>46.65%<\/strong> of driving records contain discrepancies<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\">A discrepancy is defined as &#8220;information provided by the applicant which does not agree with the information verified.&#8221;  This does not always mean that the discrepancy would disqualify the applicant.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You have seen multiple posts from us here at The Hire Sense on background verification and it&#8217;s importance in the hiring process. This morning as I was scanning through some online content, I came across some statistics from Verified Credentials on verification discrepancies. 10% of criminal background searches contain discrepancies 18.42% of academic verifications contain discrepancies 41.07% of employment verifications contain discrepancies 4.17% of professional license verifications contain discrepancies 1% of personal reference checks contain discrepancies 46.65% of driving records contain discrepancies A discrepancy is defined as &#8220;information provided by the applicant which does not agree with the information verified.&#8221; This does not always mean that the discrepancy would disqualify&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/11\/verification-statistics\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-6X","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->