{"id":4274,"date":"2019-02-26T06:00:05","slug":"employers-beware-your-candidate-might-provide-fake-referees","title":{"rendered":"Employers beware: your candidate might provide fake referees"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4276 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cms-corporate.integrity-asia.com\/id\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/employers-beware-your-candidate-might-provide-fake-referees-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"candidate\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cms-corporate.integrity-asia.com\/id\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/employers-beware-your-candidate-might-provide-fake-referees-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cms-corporate.integrity-asia.com\/id\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/employers-beware-your-candidate-might-provide-fake-referees-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cms-corporate.integrity-asia.com\/id\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/employers-beware-your-candidate-might-provide-fake-referees-400x265.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cms-corporate.integrity-asia.com\/id\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/employers-beware-your-candidate-might-provide-fake-referees-367x243.jpg 367w, https:\/\/cms-corporate.integrity-asia.com\/id\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/employers-beware-your-candidate-might-provide-fake-referees.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>To get an insight on how your candidate actually performs on the job, it is absolutely necessary to <a href=\"https:\/\/integrity-asia.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/29\/employee-background-check-do-not-believe-resume-without-reference-check\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"contact your candidate\u2019s former direct superior (opens in a new tab)\"><strong>contact your candidate\u2019s former direct superior<\/strong><\/a>. You might get other information of the candidate\u2019s employment history such as the length of service and position or title from their previous HR, but it is strongly advised to contact their former superior to get detailed information about their work performance, behavior, strengths, and weakness during their tenure. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Based on our experience, when candidates are desperate to get a new job, they sometimes provide false referees. Some resort to providing the contact details of their immediate family or peers instead of actually providing contact details of their previous superiors.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>How to prevent getting fake referees?<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>Let\u2019s do media search!<\/li>\r\n<li>Making a call to the company\u2019s land-line number to ensure that your candidate\u2019s referees indeed work at the company<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>It would be time consuming, but by getting the right information from the right referee, you can trust that you hired the right people for the right positions!<br \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To get an insight on how your candidate actually performs on the job, it is absolutely necessary to contact your candidate\u2019s former direct superior. You might get other information of the candidate\u2019s employment history such as the length of service and position or title from their previous HR, but it is strongly advised to contact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"acf":[],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/cms-corporate.integrity-asia.com\/id\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/employers-beware-your-candidate-might-provide-fake-referees.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-corporate.integrity-asia.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-corporate.integrity-asia.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-corporate.integrity-asia.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-corporate.integrity-asia.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-corporate.integrity-asia.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cms-corporate.integrity-asia.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-corporate.integrity-asia.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-corporate.integrity-asia.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-corporate.integrity-asia.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-corporate.integrity-asia.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}