Are you working in
US IT Recruitment and tired of rejections of your submissions by clients
because the profiles you were so sure about getting through were fake? If it
makes you feel better, you are not alone. The market is flooded with fake
profiles, mostly with non immigrant candidates.
On
one hand, every year thousands of fresh graduates are entering the market. They
all are eager to start their career. On the other hand companies want to hire
experienced people so that they can save on time and cost spent on training
them. It’s a complex situation. What should a fresh graduate do to get the job?
Many are tired of giving interviews and facing rejections due to absence of
experience.
While working in US
IT Recruitment, we came across many instances where candidates show fake
experience on their profiles. Recent college graduates tend to go to employers
who train them on different technologies and then try to get projects for them
with fake experience. Some of them are lucky enough to get a job, but if they
are not well versed with the technologies they can’t perform the desired task
while project execution. Many of them get blacklisted because of this reason.
These fresh
graduates then go to the employers who guarantee them that they will get
projects for them. The employers or vendors train these candidates on specific
technologies and start submitting them for different positions with fake Resume.
The interviews are
taken by someone else who is experienced and then the fake candidate is
delivered on the project. In this situation if the fake candidate is trained
properly he will be able to deliver the project on time. But these candidates
are not trained on all the technologies so gradually the client comes to know that
something is fishy about this candidate and they release the candidate from
project. The vendor company loses their face in front of the client and the
Recruiter gets all the heat.
You can’t catch
each and every fake profile but using below 2 tips the ratio can be decreased.
·
Check the
candidate’s year of birth (only the year) and add 20 to it. Usually in Asia a
student completes his graduation in 20 years. E.g. If a candidate is born in
1990 he will complete his graduation in 2010 and in 2014 he will be having
experience of 4 years. Now if a candidates profile shows experience of more
than 4 years it might be because he did some projects during his internship.
But anything more than 5 years is fake.
·
Ask the candidate
for 2 professional references with their email ids (no free domain mails like
Gmail, Yahoo or Hotmail etc.) if he is genuine he will provide the same. Else
you are free to let the candidate go.
We always ensure
that our team members to go in deep while screening profiles of the candidates.
Take your time while screening the profiles. Ask proactive questions. Use
Google if you need information on some technologies. Ask technical questions.
Cross check the answers. It’s difficult to screen each and every profile in
this high pressured environment but prevention is always better than cure.
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