Hi
just today I received a call from Delhi,, from a company, the executive told that she is doing reference check of a student who did a course (non formal course) from one of our Authorised Institute, and wanted to check whether its genuine or not.
She gave me details of certificate and marksheet and told that the student passed the course in 2002. Also the course is just a computer course some hardware networking course...
So i had to ask someone to get the dusty records from record room and verify it. she also told that she needed it by today, as the candidate needs to join by monday, if someone else would have picked up the phone he would have straight away replied that it will take 2-3 days and as saturday sunday is holiday she would have got the details from us by monday or tuesday as this is not official work and we are not obliged to do this immediately this would have been the attitude of any employee ..
But as I am a management person, I knew the importance of reference check both to the employee and employer and gave it within 10 mins,
Now what i want to know is are today companies outsourcing reference checks,, is it really benefitial ,,,
Reference checks for jobs is ok,,, but reference checks for education that too non formal education,,, with so extent that even after having marksheets and certificates employers are doing reference cheks...
How far are these checks successful as in some educational institutions if they delay the check what can be done as offer letter is issued before reference check...this is what she told me so she was requesting for data by today.... .
NEED COMMENTS anyone working as only reference checker may be able to put some light on it.
From India, Pune
54just today I received a call from Delhi,, from a company, the executive told that she is doing reference check of a student who did a course (non formal course) from one of our Authorised Institute, and wanted to check whether its genuine or not.
She gave me details of certificate and marksheet and told that the student passed the course in 2002. Also the course is just a computer course some hardware networking course...
So i had to ask someone to get the dusty records from record room and verify it. she also told that she needed it by today, as the candidate needs to join by monday, if someone else would have picked up the phone he would have straight away replied that it will take 2-3 days and as saturday sunday is holiday she would have got the details from us by monday or tuesday as this is not official work and we are not obliged to do this immediately this would have been the attitude of any employee ..
But as I am a management person, I knew the importance of reference check both to the employee and employer and gave it within 10 mins,
Now what i want to know is are today companies outsourcing reference checks,, is it really benefitial ,,,
Reference checks for jobs is ok,,, but reference checks for education that too non formal education,,, with so extent that even after having marksheets and certificates employers are doing reference cheks...
How far are these checks successful as in some educational institutions if they delay the check what can be done as offer letter is issued before reference check...this is what she told me so she was requesting for data by today.... .
NEED COMMENTS anyone working as only reference checker may be able to put some light on it.
From India, Pune
Reference checks are outsourced in many companies . I think a company named Quest does it.
From India, Bangalore
From India, Bangalore
Hi I was just going through the query you had posted ..yes quest is the company and the market has a lot of potential for such a venture .OK i want to understand ,if you have managed to further get the details and would you be comfortable to share the same with me .........give me your number may be we can talk about it
From India, Mumbai
From India, Mumbai
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