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If as part of the hiring process, something old school and simple as calling just a referenced ex-teammate (or two) of the candidate and tell you things about h
by sebastianconcpt 4y ago
If as part of the hiring process, something old school and simple as calling just a referenced ex-teammate (or two) of the candidate and tell you things about him/her wouldn't massively remove this risk?
- rr808 4y agoIf you can fake an actual interviewer, asking for references is easy.
- sebastianconcpt 4y agoBut you'll see good or bad signals on the quality of the references and their stories, no?
- rr808 4y agoI really meant who is doing the references. Its hard to confirm who was their old boss or colleague. Is hacker6969@gmail.com really their old boss? You could ask a Linkedin account but that has no guarantees either.
- sebastianconcpt 4y agoAn old school phone call to the previous employer to background check at least the very basics?
- rr808 4y agoThe problem is HR will do the basic like dates of employment but will never give a rating. Old managers probably have moved on.
- dylan604 4y agoIf they are willing to game the system by using a different person during the interview, what suggests that they would not have fake references listed to help corroborate. Seems like one of the first things I'd set up if I was running this scam.
- sebastianconcpt 4y agoIt will make you scam one order of magnitude harder to setup, complex to manage and easier to detect incongruences if the company asks the right questions.
- Eleison23 4y agoIs HR allowed to ask the "right questions", other than "Did N. work there, and when?" I'm not aware of HR departments willing to ask anything else.
- sebastianconcpt 4y agoThey won't for risk of litigation you mean or what?
- lnsru 4y agoProbably illegal in EU. For elsewhere I would add individual phone number for every fake ex-teammate so that nothing goes wrong faking voices.