Individuals do profile verification. You hand over your id eg passport, that confirms Bob is actually Bob
Workplace verification requires an email address at the company. Only works with some companies, and can only be done for your current role and going forward- I can’t respond to a work email I had a decade ago obviously. Funnily enough that was when I was ceo of Amazon or whatever.
Workplace verification would only verify you have an email address. Not title
no, it works for your currently active position. So if you're currently student at acme university and verify your acme.edu adress via email confirmation or sso, then that gets a grey checkmark next to your current title and position. A background check and/or your actual diploma or report card will clear up the question of what you actually graduated in. So sure, you can use unverified positions and achievements that are listed in your linked in bio as previous employments to fish for recruiters or build a network - but if you also list that in your CV for example, eventually you'll get checked on it somewhere in an application process that wants to see documents. When that happens and you get found out, that network will burn you and any company you applied to will blacklist you.
I found this out recently, but some companies have their HR staff scan through LinkedIn profiles that say they work for them. After I quit my last job in 2022, I never bothered to update my LinkedIn profile, so according to my profile I was still working there. But sometime in 2024, I received in email from LinkedIn saying that the employer was disputing my work history with them, and LinkedIn was forced to remove it from my profile. I guess I could go back and add that work history with the proper end date to my profile, but I never bothered.
That's not entirely true. One of the Scams on Linked-In is that you create a bot account, that says it works for X company. Then you create job listings for said company, and farm the resume's that are sent to you for Personal info to sell to data brokers.
Not only is it fucked, but the legit Company cannot remove those listings, and Linked-Ins support is garbage in helping in any way.
right? Like i can say I'm CTO of Google but it's going to take 5 minutes to figure out that's not true, so I don't know what point there'd be. People have been lying on their resumes for as long as resumes have existed.
My linkedin profile has a "verified" badge with a check mark on it and it currently has a completely fabricated job at a software startup that never existed because I made some crypto money and decided to just work on cool open-source projects for 3 years.
When I was interviewing at the company I currently work for, my boss asked me if there was any way to verify the software startup. I dug myself deeper with the lie, explaining that the CEO is currently MIA after spending seed money on personal expenses, hence the failure of the company. I offered instead to let him speak with a person I supposedly managed, who was actually my buddy from college that I sent some talking points to. My boss never followed up on that because all of my other jobs checked out.
Man i have extreme anxiety if anyone even asks my mom how im doing, i'd try everything to avoid people calling my old jobs to ask about myself, even if just to not bother my old co-workers/bosses, if they even remember me
I wonder how long it would take for the LinkedIn title to start showing up in a background check? Get enough conflicting information and who knows how it might work out!
Yeah, I know, but there are background checks and “background checks”, and lots of incestuous data sharing, and more fly-by-night sources every day. Eventually some bot may “confirm” his employment (ok, probably not this example) based on it being in LinkedIn. I’ve seen worse.
What does it mean for a job to show up on a background check? The only way to verify whether you worked a job or not is to contact the business in question, there’s no such thing as a universal background check for jobs, at least not in the Us
The only way to verify whether you worked a job or not is to contact the business in question
I guess I should have been more specific. Jobs can request that and the company running it can call to verify your past employment. Jobs aren't required to confirm so it's not sure fire they'll get a yes or no. It was meant to be more of a "if an employer wants to background checks have deeper options they can choose" than it was "all background checks do this". Many employers won't spend the extra money unless it's a high profile position.
Additionally, they can also do a credit check which shows things like the company depositing money into your bank account. I believe that one requires written permission, though.
Today is the day you learn about The Work Number, a database that basically every non-mom and pop employer in the US submits all employee work history information to, form start and end dates and even the amount of every paycheck you have ever received to. And then also uses to snoop on every potential hire. It is not universal but it is disturbingly close!
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u/Awesomereddragon 9d ago
But… they do have profile verification? What?