HireRight Adds Executive Screening Service

On-demand employment screening solutions provider HireRight has announced its HireRight Executive Biography Verification program to help organizations vet executive biographies for accuracy in regards to education, employment, and other added credentials. In an internal survey, HireRight found that about one-third of its applicants provided inaccurate depictions of their education and employment history.

“Resume padding often can start early on in one’s career, but the misrepresentations can then follow the person from job to job until someone uncovers it,” said Rob Pickell, chief marketing officer and vice president of strategy at HireRight. “When this happens with public business leaders, the resulting costs and damage to an organization’s reputation, as well as to the credibility of the individual, is significant. Corporate boards are learning they must tighten their employment screening programs to carefully vet all executive and high-profile employees pre-hire but also be very careful about vetting publicly disclosed credentials. The new HireRight Executive Biography Verification is designed to help employers carefully vet high-profile candidates and existing execs to confirm their credentials and protect what’s often the organization’s most valuable asset – its reputation.”

While most discrepancies are generally minor, the volume of such inaccuracies reveals the long-running and potentially damaging practice of resume padding. While employment screening is widely considered standard practice at a majority of U.S. employers, implementing a comprehensive program that is effective at identifying erroneous resumes and biographies, either major or minor is difficulty and often riddled with half-measures and assumptions, says HireRight:

“Some organizations may only screen for criminal history and may opt not to verify education and employment credentials, which leaves open a critical gap,” said Pickell. “Other employers may assume that an executive’s past education or experience has been checked out long ago by someone else along the line. By incorporating Executive Biography Verification into their existing employment screening program, employers can help address these common mistakes and verify employees and candidates for high-profile positions to protect the organization from potential embarrassment.”

For further information on employment screening services and the HireRight Executive Biography Verification visit HireRight.com.