The Pros And Cons Of Hiring Managers

Each year, an estimated 100,000 fake college degrees are sold in the United States, according to George Gollin, a board member of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (Tutton, 2010). Certainly, this poses a monumental problem for hiring managers and is demonstrative of a greater problem of misrepresentation in the labor supply. In a tense economy with pronounced competition between applicants for gainful employment, some individuals resort to lying on their applications about things like their date of birth, college major, criminal history, and graduation status (Gomez-Meija, Balkin, & Cardy, 2012). All told, these lies amount to fraud from every angle, and damage businesses and consumers alike. Given that around 30 percent of job …show more content…
Already discussed are possible consequences if individuals in the medical profession do not have proper training. Indeed, industries bearing a high amount of liability towards clients must take special care to weed out vocational imposters. Since airline pilots, lawyers, doctors, commercial drivers, heavy machine operators, police, and the employers of these bear tremendous liability, a heightened burden of due diligence is required of hiring managers to protect lives and the environment. While the federal government passed legislation to educate consumers about the dangers of so called, “degree mills” that fabricate illegitimate college degrees (H.R. 4137), employers must also work to identify fraudulent claims made in the hiring process, lest they be guilty of negligent hiring. If an organization hires a person claiming to have knowledge of running heavy machinery and that person ends up injuring coworkers while attempting to operate that machinery, all parties involved become vulnerable to consequential …show more content…
The same injuries causable by so-called vocational imposters may also be exacted by run-of-the-mill negligence. In this, all employees are reminded to stay current on professional certifications, industry knowledge, and safe work practices. Rampant fraudulent claims made by candidates in the hiring process are a chronic problem for organizations in America. Fabricated credentials not only damage business, consumers, and the economy as a whole, but also prime a host of legal consequences. Hiring managers should evaluate all steps of the hiring process to eliminate false incentives to falsify applications and also to protect their organization from enduring fraudsters that pose a threat to the integrity of the labor market at