{"id":4619,"date":"2020-01-07T21:49:18","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T21:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/authbridge.com\/?post_type=post&#038;p=4619"},"modified":"2023-10-05T10:31:46","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T10:31:46","slug":"resume-fraud-fake-educational-qualifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/authbridge.com\/staging\/resources\/blogs\/resume-fraud-fake-educational-qualifications\/","title":{"rendered":"Resume Fraud &#8211; Fake Educational Qualifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being a HR professional in today\u2019s business environment is not easy.\u00a0 Along with other challenges that come their way, the one at the core of their responsibilities is staffing.\u00a0 Finding the right person (with the right qualifications, skills and experience), to fill a vacancy in a quick time, is always a tough ask.<\/p>\n<p>A basic element of every job application is education.\u00a0 Upon this is built a person\u2019s professional profile.\u00a0 It is here that a major portion of the resume fraud occurs.\u00a0 Studies have shown 41% of job applicants are untruthful about their educational achievements.\u00a0 Another survey reveals that 20% of applicants actually concocted fake degrees.\u00a0 Many of these fraudulent degrees were manufactured and supplied by \u201cdiploma factories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201d A Google search will bring up thousands of sites that openly advertise their wares.\u00a0 These suppliers offer phony (but real-looking) diplomas and degrees.\u00a0 They will doctor the \u2018genuine\u2019 fake degree of any institution with dates and period of study to the buyer\u2019s requirements.\u00a0 They will also provide everything including grades in specific subjects.<\/p>\n<p>Research done in the US brought up over 300 sites.\u00a0 They are making good money because the fake degree industry is estimated to have made over $500 million in the last year.\u00a0 The University Grants Commission (UGC), India has a list of 21 fake universities.\u00a0 That means that there are a lot of unqualified people out there.<\/p>\n<p>Diploma Mills are another threat area.\u00a0 The UGC has a list of \u2018known\u2019 diploma mills.\u00a0 A cursory check on the Internet will reveal many, many more.\u00a0 Guess-estimates abound (both in India and abroad) but no one has an exact number on this whole phenomenon.\u00a0 Such is the brazenness of many of these \u201cdiploma mills\u201d that now provide toll-free phone numbers should prospective employers call to verify and check the degrees of their clients.<\/p>\n<p>In India, the <a href=\"https:\/\/authbridge.com\/staging\/checks\/education-verification\/\">education verification<\/a> process is complicated by the sheer number of universities that exist in the country.\u00a0 There are 504 universities of all dispensations \u2013 including state, private, central, and deemed universities.\u00a0 In this scenario figuring out whether a job applicant\u2019s degree is genuine is a major headache for any HR executive.<\/p>\n<p>Genuine qualifications are the basic building blocks for job aspirants.\u00a0 No company can afford to have inadequately qualified employees.\u00a0 They are a risk to the well-being, sustainability, and success of the company.\u00a0 Thorough and robust <a href=\"https:\/\/authbridge.com\/staging\/employee-background-verification-screening\/\">background screening of employees<\/a>, both existing and prospective, is a major pre-requisite for any business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being a HR professional in today\u2019s business environment is not easy.\u00a0 Along with other challenges that come their way, the one at the core of their responsibilities is staffing.\u00a0 Finding the right person (with the right qualifications, skills and experience), to fill a vacancy in a quick time, is always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44848,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,31,21,22,32,33,34,35,23,39,24,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-background-checks","category-bfsi","category-blogs","category-ecommerce","category-education","category-employee-onboarding","category-fmcg","category-healthcare","category-hospitality","category-it-ites","category-manufacturing","category-pharma"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.13 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Resume Fraud - Fake Educational Qualifications - AuthBridge<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A basic element of every job application is education. 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