How Blockchain is Changing The Hiring Process

The Broken Background Check

A resume is useless. As an employer I have seen hundreds of resumes and each one poses the same question. Is anything on here actually true? Anyone can say they were an ex-employee at Apple or Tesla or that they graduated from Stanford or Harvard. How do I know that any of this information is true?

In comes the background check. Either myself or a company I hire spends days if not weeks meticulously going to every single institution and manually verifying the information provided on the employee’s resume. But people make mistakes. What if the person I contact at Apple mistakenly tells me that my applicant never worked at Apple. How is it fair that now this applicant will not get the job offer because of someone else’s mistake. Or what if the opposite situation occurs where I get a false confirmation that the applicant attended a university or worked at a job they never did. Now I have hired a fraud into my company.

Both examples point to a larger issue in the hiring process which is the limitations of a background check. Background checks are archaic in every manner. They are prone to human error, are prohibitively costly, and take too long to complete. The inefficiencies in the background check industry is the reason why by some estimates resume fraud costs employers…