Understand the importance of verifying past employment and best practices in spotting false credentials.
This topic reviews legal and effective techniques for reference-checking processes, including how to verify education and spot worthless degrees and phony employment credentials. It will 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, helpful insights and best practices in obtaining past employment references, and 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, such as verifications by email, will also be reviewed, as well as special issues involving international credentials and the role of social media sites and Web 2.0 in the process. This information will examine the new trend towards prohibiting inquiries about past salaries and how employers can comply with these new requirements.
Learning Objectives
- You will be able to describe why it is critical to verify past employment and education credentials.
- You will be able to explain best practices when asking for past employment information.
- You will be able to review legal and effective techniques for reference-checking processes.
- You will be able to discuss new laws prohibiting employers from asking applicants about past salaries and how to comply with the requirements.
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Agenda
| Why It Is Critical to Verify Past Employment and Education Credentials | |
| The Trends Toward an Increase in False Credentials | |
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| Verifying Past Employment | |
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| Educational and Professional Credentials | |
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| Additional Special Issues for Employers | |
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This live webinar is designed for human resource managers, benefits and payroll professionals, business owners and managers, controllers, and CFOs.
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Faculty
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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