Nearly 28% of job applicants submit fake degrees, says Annual Trend Report 2020

Trends in Education Verification

Education frauds have been brought to light time and again with busting of several fake degree rackets in 2011, 2018 and now in 2021 making the need to get education documents verified and re-verified in a periodic manner – an absolute necessity in the hiring process. To bring in a more discerning understanding of education frauds, we have compiled a report comprising the Trends in Education Frauds in India for 2018, 2019 and 2020. According to the recent Annual Trend Report, we found that:

• Fake degree submission constituted for nearly 28% of education discrepancies in 2020 in India.
• Degrees from fake universities constituted for nearly 27% of education discrepancies in 2020 in India.
• Talking about industry-wise education discrepancies, the BPO industry tops the charts at 10.4% in 2020, followed by Private Insurance Companies.
• The north and west parts of India have consistently been the top regions with significant education discrepancies.
• The education discrepancy trend has not witnessed a drop in the last three years and has increased marginally in 2020 as compared to 2018 figures.

The right solution

The only way to ensure that genuine candidates are being hired is to add a layer of education check in your employee background screening process.  AuthBridge, India’s largest authentication technology and background verifications company, offers a completely digital employee onboarding and background verification experience which not only makes it easy for the candidate to submit their documents online but also helps the HR to track document collection, submission and the document verification process in real time. iBRIDGE , our one-stop web platform automates the entire hiring ecosystem comprising  ,Employee background verification Document Collection and Onboarding with client-end processes that can be customised to suit specific requirements, enabling quick turnaround time for fast-track decisions. With a vast array of 200+ checks such as, Identity Verification, Education Verification, Address Check, Employment Check, Police and Court Verification among others, our onboarding and verification products ensure that you hire the right candidate safeguarding your organisation from the risks of reputational frauds

Source:- Hindustantimes, Digitallearning, firstpost