{"id":1766,"date":"2008-10-29T08:12:26","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T13:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=1766"},"modified":"2008-10-29T05:57:20","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T10:57:20","slug":"finding-fibs-on-a-resume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/10\/finding-fibs-on-a-resume\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Fibs On A Resume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In reviewing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrguru.com\/news\/1586-ferreting-out-fibs-on-the-rsum?page=1&amp;referral=HRG_nlet_1R_20081015\" target=\"_blank\">HRGURU newsletter<\/a> I ran across a good article on finding fibs in resumes.\u00a0 It gives some sound advice to follow so you are not discovering these lies on the resume after a person starts.\u00a0 The 5 tips:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get an early read about the candidate\u2019s visible profile. Look for a candidate\u2019s public profile by reviewing announcements, articles and other material that often can be found easily online. You do need to gauge how much stock you\u2019ll put into whatever you find\u2014good or bad\u2014because you can\u2019t always believe what you read.<\/li>\n<li>Confirm academic credentials early.<\/li>\n<li>Gain consensus on the reference checking process.\u00a0 Who is going to perform it and what information is important for you to learn.<\/li>\n<li>Seize the opportunity in the interview. The interview is a good opportunity to ask candidates about their experience and education and how, exactly, they\u2019ve delivered the results they\u2019ve claimed on paper.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Background check<\/strong>\u00a0(emphasis is mine).\u00a0 This is a great time to get academic verification done also.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Too many times I have seen interviews in which the interviewer only verifies the dates, titles and responsibilities of what a candidate writes on\u00a0their resume.\u00a0 The interview is a great time for you to dig into the accomplishments and find out more details of how they achieved what they claim they achieved.\u00a0 It&#8217;s amazing what you can learn form just a couple of straight-forward, probing\u00a0questions.<\/p>\n<p>I once interviewed a candidate\u00a0who had amazing accomplishments listed on his resume &#8211; seemed like a great candidate.\u00a0 After a couple of simple questions about how he achieved these many successes,\u00a0he quickly told us that he just happened to answer the phone at the right time.\u00a0 How is that for sales ability?\u00a0 You could say he really didn&#8217;t sell himself.\u00a0 The position required the ability to develop a brand new territory so he was ruled out at that point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In reviewing the HRGURU newsletter I ran across a good article on finding fibs in resumes.\u00a0 It gives some sound advice to follow so you are not discovering these lies on the resume after a person starts.\u00a0 The 5 tips: Get an early read about the candidate\u2019s visible profile. Look for a candidate\u2019s public profile by reviewing announcements, articles and other material that often can be found easily online. You do need to gauge how much stock you\u2019ll put into whatever you find\u2014good or bad\u2014because you can\u2019t always believe what you read. Confirm academic credentials early. Gain consensus on the reference checking process.\u00a0 Who is going to perform it and&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/10\/finding-fibs-on-a-resume\/\">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":[2,16,13],"tags":[199,257,1062,982,446],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-su","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1766"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1768,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766\/revisions\/1768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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