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Looking Beyond the Resume: Creative Candidate Screening

Learn the various moving parts and best practices used to select the best candidates.

Employers face substantial challenges when trying to hire the right person. One bad hiring decision can create legal and financial nightmares. In addition, employers often need to go through stacks of applications to find the right person and then make sure the applicant has the qualifications listed in the resume or application. For job applicants, a resume is a marketing tool, and it is up to the employer to exercise due diligence to ensure the applicant has been honest and truthful and does not represent an undue risk in the workplace. The solution is a hiring program that goes beyond the resume or application to make certain the applicant really has the qualifications needed for the job. It starts with an in-depth review of the resume to avoid sure signs of a bad hire. The employer can then use the interview and past employment verification process strategically to ensure a good hire. Employers may consider other tools as well in order to whittle down the applicant pool to focus on those candidates with the highest probability of success. Finally, employers can conduct background checks on the finalists, which can include checking social media and criminal records, although employers need to be very careful to use those tools properly. Criminal records are a highly regulated area and cannot be used unfairly to deny applicants a second chance. This presentation is an overview of how to go beyond the resume and is designed to give employers an overview of all the various moving parts and best practices used to select the best candidates. It also provides tips on identifying and avoiding legal traps for the unwary.

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Candidates Use Resumes as a Marketing Tool

  • Cannot Verify Online-Internet Sites May Not Be Reliable
  • Due Diligence Requires Reasonable Procedure and Processes to Verify Information and to Uncover Red Flags
  • Resume Tells You Nothing About Their Fit-Do They Understand Your Culture and Values, Do They Want to Be Part of Your Culture, and Can They Do the Job (or Be Trained to Do It)

Careful Analysis of the Application Is Invaluable

  • Careful Review of the Application-in a High Percentage of Cases, Candidate Success or Failure Could Have Been Predicted From the Application
  • 10 Signs Based on the Resume or Application You May Be Hiring a Lawsuit Waiting to Happen

Progressive Screening - Separating the Wheat From the Chaff and Finding Potential Fits

  • Trying to Whittle Down Applicant Pool to a Manageable Size Considering Only Criteria That Are Job Related and Are Valid Predictors of Future Success
  • Starts With Well-Defined Job Description With Both Hard Skills and Soft Sills to Evaluate Resume
  • Other Tools Designed to Hone in on Potential Finalists (Such as Phone Interviews, Video Interviews, 360 Assessments, Online Evaluations, etc.)

The Job Interview-More Than a Meet and Greet

  • Avoiding Common Interview Mistakes
    • Accepting on Face Value or the Halo Effect
    • Illegal Questions
  • Use Behavior Based Interviewing-Tell Me About a Time When...
  • Six Key Due Diligence Questions

Essential Candidate Screening Before the Person's First Day

  • Contact Past Employer - a Must-Do
  • Verify Past Education or Other Credentials
  • Social Media Searches
  • Relevant Criminal Checks-but Remember EEOC/Second Chance Limitations
  • Other Background Screening/Due Diligence Issues
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This course was last revised on March 30, 2023.

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  • HR Certification Institute 1.25
     
  • This E-Learning program has been pre-approved for 1.25 (General) recertification credit hours toward aPHR®, aPHRi(TM), PHR®, PHRca®, SPHR®, GPHR®, PHRi(TM), and SPHRi(TM) recertification through HR Certification Institute® (HRCI®). For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HR Certification Institute website at www.hrci.org.
     
  • SHRM 1.0
     
  • Lorman Education Services is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for the SHRM-CPSM or SHRM-SCPSM. This program is valid for 1.0 PDC(s) for the SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP.
     

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  • Those applying for AIA and HRCI must view 100% of the program and answer the questions following the program.

This program does NOT qualify, nor meet the National Standard for NASBA accreditation.

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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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Product ID: 410431
Published 2023
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