Who can you Trust?

Kia Ora,

Over the last few years New Zealand government departments have been embarrassed by people in high positions being exposed for having falsified their CV's.

A recent investigation made the comment that basic procedures had not been followed.

Probably the biggest issue though is bureaucrats sticking to a system that has been shown to be flawed. That is the use of referees. Government departments stick to this like glue, but in reality it is so easy to manipulate.

Several years ago whilst at a seminar a leading member of the recruitment industry made just this point. Your referee is always someone who is going to say the best about you & easy to set up someone who will actually be in on any lies you put in your CV.

Personally if I am required to provide referees I use ex army mates as I know they will give honest answers even if that means I might miss out on something. A CV & most referees can never actually tell you how someone will be in the position.

A good point the person from the recruitment industry made was see if you know the businesses in the CV & ring them or someone in that industry. Get a warts & all appraisal.

It is that warts & all that any security style check needs to know. Not what courses you can put on paper.

Have said it before there are many coming out of courses who have little actual knowledge of security or any other industry. The education system is dumbing people down so any paper work is worthless when looking at what a person can provide for the employer.
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For the security industry it should be the ability to think for yourself, honesty & lack of drug use. It is an industry where experience will teach you more after an initial base training.

Government departments it should be how efficient you are, how you can think for yourself & again how honest you are.

In the latest high profile situation the actual work face members of that department(the military)should of had a greater say than they obviously did in the employment of this particular individual.

Due to a yearly exchange of personnel across the ranks structure, exercises & other commitments the New Zealand Military has a lot of contacts within the British Military system that should of exposed this person as a fraud a lot sooner.
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That information would of been coming from people they trust. It is obvious now that any referees must of been in on the scam because it was nothing else but a scam.

Despite all this on going problems with recruiting in particular offshore qualifications & experience government departments are still going down the 'referee' road when it quite obviously is open to major abuse. This creates security issues that need to be sorted.

You know how much you can trust someone you actually know. As opposed to a nameless person on the end of the phone or these days computer.

How do you know that the person you are talking too is not the person applying?

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