How often do employers check on transcripts from college or ask for your degree? I've never had anyone ask me for it?
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Is anyone else concerned about job applications asking for your Social Security number upfront before an interview or offer? With identity theft and fraud being so common, it feels like this information should only be requested during hiring paperwork after an offer is made. Curious how others handle this.
Please don't judge me. I've sat in on meetings where people have been fired before. I'm fine being support to the managers and handling the paperwork, but I've only actually done the firing part twice before. However, during next week's layoffs, I'll be in charge of running these meetings. I'm nervous about sitting one on one with people and telling them they don't have a job and explaining the pretty crappy severance policy. I'm afraid if someone cries, I'll tear up. How do you guys stay
Hello — looking for guidance on a workplace issue. We hired a manager’s son because he was highly qualified and has done a great job. Recently, two employees raised concerns about perceived favoritism. In reality, he’s often taken on difficult tasks others declined, but we can’t share those details. The perception is now affecting morale and team dynamics. Global HR said upper management should handle instead of HR. Seems not right. Any advice on managing the perception and team dynamics?
I’ve been in meetings where leadership said they wanted honest employee feedback, then became visibly uncomfortable when they actually received it. HR often encourages openness while quietly managing reactions behind the scenes. Do organizations really want honest feedback, or just positive feedback?
I've only ever looked at transcripts for co-op positions, because our student salary grid takes into account how many semesters the student has completed. I've never worked at a place that specifically hired the students with the highest grades. In fact, most of us prefered to see that someone worked while they were in school, was socially active, hopefully played some team sports - even if all that led to lower (still passing though...) grades, it also led to a more well-rounded person = a plus. So in the end, the transcript didn't add much other than a way to calculate the student pay. We do check degrees through our background check vendor, it's part of the regular employment/education verifications. The vendors go directly to the uni's to get that verification, so even if you've lost the actual piece of paper you'll be fine. If you didn't graduate though, you'll have to pull a Mike Ross and somehow get your name into that uni's system 🙃
Lol, it's from the show Suits - Mike Ross is supersmart and has passed the lsats a bunch of times under other people's name, but never went to law school himself. Somehow he gets hired at a major law firm that only hires from Harvard, and that's just the first episode. Highly recommend it! 😊
Weird, I have had education verification at every company I have worked at (4), even though a degree is not "required."
My current organization includes education verification as part of the background check process.
We check that someone has graduated with the degree that they stated they do. We're not looking at the grades though. As a non-profit that works with children, our state contracts mandate that we hire a certain percentage of people with the appropriate degree.