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Reference Checking and Education Verification Compliance

Make sure you are in compliance when checking up on applicants' references, education, and salary history.

This material reviews legal and effective techniques for the reference checking processes including how to verify education, and spot worthless degrees and phony employment credentials. It will also cover the legal landscape concerning past employment references, including an employer's potential liability when providing information. Other topics include best practices when asking for past employment information and helpful insights and best practices in obtaining past employment references. Other areas will include special issues such as handling verification of current employment, what to do if the past employer no longer exists, military employment and dealing with employment databases. New technologies and approaches will also be reviewed such as verifications by email, as well as special issues involving international credentials and the role of social media sites and Web 2.0 in the process. This topic will examine the new trend towards prohibiting inquiries about past salary, and how employers can comply with these new requirements.

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Why It Is Critical to Verify Past Employment and Education Credentials

The Trends Toward an Increase in False Credentials

  • False Credentials Are on the Rise
  • Numerous Tools Now Available for Dishonest Applicants to Fake Their Past
  • Why Employers Are at a Disadvantage in Discovering Fake Credentials

Verifying Past Employment

  • Understanding the Difference Between Verification and References
  • Legal and Practical Impediments to Requesting and Obtaining Past Employment Verification's and References
  • Practical Steps and Tools to Use When Trying to Verify Past Employment
  • Who Should Seek Past Employment Information - Human Resources, Hiring Managers or Background Firms?
  • Practical Steps to Take When Another Employer Asks You for Information About One of Your Former Employees
  • New Technologies Available to Facilitate Past Employment Information and Their Pros and Cons
  • What Is the Value of Business Connection Websites Where Consumers List Their Credentials and Accomplishments?
  • New Laws Prohibiting Employers From Asking Applicants About Their Past Salary and Concerns About Wage Equality
  • Other Special Issues Such as Military Experience, Dealing With Employment Gaps and Younger Workers With a Limited Employment History

Educational Credentials

  • The Trend Towards False Educational Credentials and Worthless Degrees From Degree Mills
  • Tools Available to Applicants to Obtain Worthless Educational Degrees and Credentials
  • Steps Employers Can Take to Verity a Degree Is Authentic and From an Accredited School
  • Special Issues When It Comes to Educational Verifications

Additional Special Issues for Employers

  • Can Employers Rely Upon Social Media Checks to Verify Credentials? The Pros and Cons
  • Special Issues Surrounding International Credentials
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Applications have not yet been submitted for Delaware, Idaho, Kentucky, Maine, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Wyoming CLE for this course. However, if you are interested in obtaining CLE for any of the listed states or have any additional credit questions please email us at [email protected] or call us at 866-352-9540.

This course was last revised on November 30, 2021.

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  • AR CLE 1.0
     
  • This course has been approved for 1.0 hours of CLE by the Arkansas CLE Board.
     
  • WA CLE 1.0
     
  • This program has been approved by the Washington State Board of Continuing Legal Education for 1.0 hours of A/V credit under the Law & Legal Procedure category.
     

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Lester S. Rosen, Esq.

Lester S. Rosen, Esq.

Employment Screening Resources® (ESR)

  • Attorney at Law and founder of Employment Screening Resources, a service offering of ClearStar
  • Experienced in background checks, safe hiring, due diligence, and legal compliance
  • Frequent presenter at national and regional human resources and security conferences, as well as numerous national webinars
  • Author of The Safe Hiring Manual, the first comprehensive book on employee screening
  • Chairperson of the steering committee that founded the Professional Background Screening Association (PBSA), the official voice of the background screening industry, and served as the first co-chairman in 2004
  • Recipient of the PBSA Lifetime Achievement award in 2019
  • J.D. degree, University of California, Davis School of Law; B.A. degree, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Can be contacted at [email protected]
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Published 2021
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