Online Professional Experience Validation.
September 06, 06 by BharaniI was reading an article in Hindu about leaving an employer without damaging the relationships. I felt a need for the following when I was reading it:
“One-stop website to capture the following input from the employers/employees: Testimonials, Recommendations (both positive and negative), awards offered and Experience validation. All employers can check out the details of prospective employee through this website. The website will act like a certifying/validating/verification authority. “
The benefit for employers:
1. A single point to know about the track records of prospective employees. This will help the employer in easily weeding out cheats from real stars at a very early stage of recruitment process.
2. A mechanism through which they can mark the employees who hop jobs relentlessly, who leave job half-completed and who were fired (kind of register the information in the database). This kind of feedback from employers will be crucial for the success of the concept.
The benefit for employees:
1. A star employee can proudly show all his “approved” accomplishments to the next employer.
Users of the system:
1. Corporates
2. Professionals searching for job.
3. Universities ( May be for recommendation letters needed by some Management institutes).
I have to think over this business need. Job portals like Naukri.com, monster.com can easily incorporate this feature as they already have some relationships with corporates and professionals. But how easy is to collect the data that I mentioned before accurately and timely?
Anuj Says: 07.09.06 at 4:56 am
Hey Bharani a few points:
There are times when people leave becuase of personal problems with their supervisors. It is not that the person is incompetent, it might be the supervisor was incompetent!! In such a case if the supervisor is not mature enough he can easily give bad comments about the person and it can mar his career prospects.
it would be a very powerful tool in the hands of the employer and can drastically impact the future prospects of the emplyoees. There are good points about it, but only if the people who use it are really professional about it. I do not think our industry and people are all so mature and capable..
My 2 cents!
Karthik Says: 07.09.06 at 8:14 am
In an ideal world, this would work fine .. But in cases where people leave in disgust, the managers can easily back stab .. And make sure that the guy never gets hired elsewhere !! Too risky a proposition - this is probably something where the negative effects are by far more than the positive things it can do ..
Jeeva Says: 07.09.06 at 9:23 am
Third party verification agencies verify professional & educational qualifications. So the previous employer will not even know which company the employee has joined. I feel this is a better way.This verification process is expensive and hence is not done at the begining of the recruiment process.
Bharani , In the MBA world , most IT guys claim themself as Insurance/Telecom(and so on) domain experts while they would have gained the knowledge while working on IT projects. I would not say this as cheating but recuiters here know what the person did in previous job (to write java/sql code for an insurance/telecom client) and the cv goes in to bin. If you apply your model , the previous company would certify the candidate as an Insurance wizard !
LinkedIn has some features to satify the recommendation aspect and I prefer that kind of free / open way rather tha building a controlled universal data base of all employees ..
newfriend Says: 07.09.06 at 10:20 am
People who have professionalism in them would never hop companies by leaving any job half-completed .Maturity comes only through experience.For example if you join a new company leaving some job half-done and in the new company where you joined if you are forced to finish the half-completed job left by the predecessor in your role , you will never repeat the same mistake.
Bharani Says: 07.09.06 at 3:31 pm
First of all thanks guys for your valuable feedback.
From all your points two things stand out: Back-stabbing by Immature/Incompetent managers and a need for a standardized evaluation (normalizing the inputs from different employers).
What I had in mind: The data will be employee-driven and the approval will be employer-driven. Basically web-enabling the verification/background-check process. I went one step ahead and added a way for employers to mark really really bad candidates. This process is a very tricky one as everyone pointed out. But employers would love to have such a feature. I think this will not be practical in Indian context..
Anyway, I was predominatly searching for “Experience validation”, “Resume validation”, “Resume check” in Google. I slightly tweaked my query to “Resume Authentication service” and I hit the bull’s eye! There seems to be something available already meeting such needs and effort is driven by none other than NASSCOM!…Read on the following link for knowing more about it.
http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread44062.html
https://nationalskillsregistry.com/
The Resume authentication and verification would be done Verifacts Services Private Limited (www.verifactsgroup.net).
Phew…I never knew such a thing existed…It goes to show that we go after something only when we feel the need!!! And it is a nice re-assurance that I am not thinking weird
Ramki Says: 09.09.06 at 10:07 am
Big B, check this http://www.odesk.com/
BTW, am off to chennai tonight.
Bharani Says: 09.09.06 at 9:21 pm
Ramki, I checked the site. The concept looks similar to Team Lease(of Manish Sabharwal, the same person who gave a guest lecture talk at ISB). isn\\\’t it?
Praveen Kumar Says: 13.09.06 at 1:54 pm
There was a single line in that article “Dont burn Bridges behind you” …..
Praveen Kumar Says: 13.09.06 at 1:57 pm
“People leave managers not companies”
Bharani Says: 13.09.06 at 7:43 pm
Yes Praveen…so? BTW, heard from Jeeva that you are now in Chennai. Cool..hope you are enjoying your job now..Wassup with your blog no updates?..do update it at leisure…Take care…