New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How much employee resume verification is done in practice?
Ask HN: How much employee resume verification is done in practice?
19 by NewUser76312 | 23 comments on Hacker News.
We all know that it's commonplace to 'put your best foot forward' on resumes as an employee, and sometimes this can lead into bending the truth a little bit. But I'm curious in practice how much actual employee resume verification is done? Do people even check if they've graduated the colleges they say they have, or have evidence of employment of somewhere they've noted down? What about job titles? I'm also wondering how thorough current FAANG-type companies are. This topic came to mind after seeing a 'resume prank' video where someone came up with a ridiculous and troll-ish resume (with rude and offensive jokes in the bullet points), but had 'Stanford', 'Amazon', etc, and so he got about 30 out of 100 interviews applying to top (US) tech companies. Is this fakery something that would get someone caught further down the line perhaps? Just been very curious how this all works in practice lately. I've done some hiring in the past and typically I'll just call contact references (who I can't even ensure are real people tbh). Of the few times I've requested a transcript, I take it at face value and have no way of telling if it's doctored.
19 by NewUser76312 | 23 comments on Hacker News.
We all know that it's commonplace to 'put your best foot forward' on resumes as an employee, and sometimes this can lead into bending the truth a little bit. But I'm curious in practice how much actual employee resume verification is done? Do people even check if they've graduated the colleges they say they have, or have evidence of employment of somewhere they've noted down? What about job titles? I'm also wondering how thorough current FAANG-type companies are. This topic came to mind after seeing a 'resume prank' video where someone came up with a ridiculous and troll-ish resume (with rude and offensive jokes in the bullet points), but had 'Stanford', 'Amazon', etc, and so he got about 30 out of 100 interviews applying to top (US) tech companies. Is this fakery something that would get someone caught further down the line perhaps? Just been very curious how this all works in practice lately. I've done some hiring in the past and typically I'll just call contact references (who I can't even ensure are real people tbh). Of the few times I've requested a transcript, I take it at face value and have no way of telling if it's doctored.
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