Legal and Effective Reference Checking, Credential and Education Verification
Unfortunately, candidates who falsify or inflate their employment and educational accomplishments have become a significant problem for employers. Legal limitations also create difficulties when it comes to obtaining past employment information. During this session, you will:
· Learn effective and legal strategies to verify an applicant's past employment and educational accomplishments.
· Explore why the use of employment references creates legal issues and learn strategies for
obtaining information and dealing with requests from other employers.
· Review new technologies and approaches to credential verifications.
· Understand special issues when it comes to social media and international employment and education verification.
Lester S. Rosen
Lester S. Rosen is an attorney at law and CEO of Employment Screening Resources (ESR), a national background screening company. He is a consultant, writer, expert witness and frequent presenter nationwide on pre-employment screening. He is the author of “The Safe Hiring Manual,” (3d Edition 2017/826 pages), the first comprehensive book on background screening. He served as the chairperson of the steering committee that founded the Professional Background Screeners Association (PBSA), served as its first co-chair and received the PBSA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019.
