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Liar Liar – Pants on Fire

Admin — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 22:17:12 +0000

When recruiting, it never ceases to amaze me how job applicants will lie right to my face. Here’s a recent example… After we make a conditional offer of employment, we have applicants take a pre-employment drug screen and we conduct a pre-employment criminal background check and a pre-employment motor vehicle record (MVR) check – with the latter being required if they’ll be driving for company business.

So we interviewed a guy and made him an offer. He would need to be driving for work, so we advised him that the MVR was one of the checks that would be required. He laughed it off and made a joke about how he had a clean driving record and was not worried whatsoever about any background check that was required. However, the MVR came back as a mess and he was not insurable under our fleet insurance policy. So we couldn’t hire him

As a side-note, it’s always entertaining when they want to call and want to debate their MVR with you. I just direct them to the “Summary of Rights” form that they were sent. But it’s a shame that people can’t be honest when they are faced with the fact that you’re going to check their background. I mean, you’re sitting there, knowing that I’m going to be looking at your driving record, you have multiple occurrences and points on your it…and yet you sit there, smile and joke that there’s nothing to worry about. It’s pretty pathetic and a waste of everyone’ time if you ask me.

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Your Password Please

Admin — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:33:05 +0000

If you were interviewing for a job and the hiring manager asked you for your Facebook or My Space user name and password, would you provide it?

Click here to read an interesting article by HR Morning on the city of Bozeman’s (Montana) hiring practice – where they do exactly what I just mentioned.

Frankly, I’m not surprised at all by the “outcry” from the HR community regarding Bozeman’s hiring method.

I’m a realist. When recruiting, of course I Google names and check free web resources – including social networking web sites. But what I find with Facebook and My Space is that those pages are often private at the request of the member (which is exactly what I think they should be and should remain).

If you’re looking for a job, change your status on those sites to private so I can’t see it. I really started preaching this to the graduating college seniors who attended my seminars last year. Yet, this advice is also applicable to most job seekers out there.

I would never give my consent or provide my username and login. It should be interesting to see where this issue goes from here.