Saturday, May 24, 2008

Faked your Resume in the Past??? Welcome to Authentic Track Record!!

Once Jesus was teaching in the temple courtyard. According to the Gospel of St. John, chapter 8, The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught committing adultery. They made her stand in front of everyone and asked Jesus, “Teacher, we caught this woman in the act of adultery. Moses teaching ordered us to stone women like this to death. What do you say?” They asked this to test him. They wanted to find a reason to bring charges against Jesus.

Jesus bent down and used his finger to write on the ground. When they persisted in asking him questions, he straightened up and said “The person who is sinless should be the first to throw a stone at her” Then he bent down again and continued writing on the ground.

One by one, beginning with the older men, the scribes and Pharisees left. Jesus was left alone with the woman. Then Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Where did they go? Has anyone condemned you?”

The women answered “No one, sir.” Jesus said, “I don’t condemn you either. Go! From now on don’t sin.”

2000 YEARS LATER (Present day)

Misrepresentation of data in the Resume has given rise to the need for employment verification. Many corporate’s have black listed employees who have been caught for providing fake resume, and fake certificates.

Neither the Corporate world nor the employees can say they have done everything the right way. Recently an anonymous blogger responded “I have seen the cases where companies make employees to show more fake experience so that they can present them to client & then the same company sacking them later sometime giving the reason that these guys faked in CV & so are fired”

What would Jesus have said “The person who is sinless should be the first to throw a stone ”

Authentic Track Record is a system that provides the infrastructure required for an individual to maintain an Authentic Track Record. It gives you the second chance to turn away from the past mistakes and to commit yourself to a clean track record. But, this is a choice that you make. We don’t condemn you for what you did prior to the decision to maintaining an Authentic Track Record. You are Welcome to register with us. From now on, make sure that you fake no more.

www.authentictrackrecord.com

Monday, April 28, 2008

Making HR ATM Possible

We have the technology required to shortlist, test and interview a candidate even when the candidate is located in a different location. But, if you need to release a hard copy offer to the candidate without a face-to-face interaction, you need to provide the instant decision making support to that employer. A few questions over the virtual network may not prove the capability and authenticity of the candidate and their past performance records or history. Even an Authenticated resume is a third party intervention and those reports cannot be taken at face value for authenticity.

Authentic Track Record proves the authenticity of the candidate who is attending interview from an HRATM or Any Time Manpower Kiosk. The instant decision making support is what makes the Authentic Track Record the backbone to create an HRATM.

Saturday, March 22, 2008

Offer accepted by candidate but "no show"

With the number of opportunities increasing, the occurrences of candidates accepting an offer but failing to join is increasing. Authentic Track Record has an inbuilt solution to addressing this issue that recruitment managers are faced with.

It is fine for a candidate to collect any number of offers from various companies, but, once the candidate accepts to join an organisation by accepting one of those offers, then, a “ no show ” on the date of joining proves very costly to that company. Firstly, the recruiter needs to start on the process of talent identification once again. Secondly, the client loses the confidence with the organisation due to delay in the project. Thirdly, the cost of talent acquisition almost doubles. ATR keeps track of 'offers accepted' against 'joinings', for an individual. The ATR summary highlights the candidates 'total offers accepted' against the tally of 'total joined'. This gives an indication on the candidate’s seriousness in planning for a shift in job. Recruiters will naturally opt for those who are serious about joining. The system brings in certain basic code of ethics, which was just not possible through the resume/CV based system.”.

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Peer pressure and false representations

I happened to talk to few people about the effect of peer pressure which could contribute to an individual compromising on certain values. When those around you get the winning edge because they falsely represented data in their resume, there is peer pressure on adopting the same way to get an offer or any such end results.

One of the objective of Authentic Track Record was to make sure that all who complete starts from a common start line. The earlier system in the form of a C.V or Resume did not allow equal opportunity to an open position. The Authentic Track Record System (ATR) is an alternative solution to the problems that existed in maintaining a C.V or Resume.

Today, we see candidates starting the race from different starting points, when actually all running the competition need to start from one start line. Meritorious and ethical values lose out in the current talent acquisition scenario. What I mean by this is, the current scenario gives those who fake resume or provide fake certificates a competitive advantage when compared to those who adhere to values and ethics and decide to start only from the common start line. When those peers who fake gets the advantage and get job offers, the peer pressure, over a period of time builds and others also start looking at this as an option to get the competitive edge by faking.

The Authentic Track Record System makes sure that all starts the race from the same start line. You must be curious about how we can make all run the race for the offer from the same start line. ATR updates the record at source. For example, on day one of a person joining, the first update of the joining information updates the Authentic Track Record. You will notice that, unlike the Resume or CV, which are updated by the individual that can be faked, an ATR cannot be faked, as the update is not by the individual but the actual source update of professional relationships.