Education Credentials Verification

This verification has become very important as in recent times many employees pose fake Educational certificates to land their dream jobs or for better pay or designation. False educational claims are one of the most common background check issues. Trusted Support Services Private Limited Education Verification Services conduct a check on the applicant's educational background to verify his or her Educational Claims. This helps you in taking the correct decision when it comes to hiring or placing confidence in the applicant. Recently a General Manager working in a reputed company was ousted from his position when it was discovered that his University qualifications were forged.?

Through this verification, the legitimacy of an employee’s education with respect to the degree, year of completion and the course pursued is verified by contacting the educational institution directly.

The Challenges:

Only a few of the higher education institutions have placed their graduates’ lists online. In addition, the HRD Ministry sponsored National Database of Academic Qualifications is still in the development stage. So a physical visit to the institution becomes imperative in most cases. The commonly followed method of this verification is, just a physical inspection of the certificates. Manipulating certificates is not a big deal in the current age of technology making such method fraught with risky.

Verifying over courier/post, phone, and email or via any electronic means is virtually impossible except for a handful of universities.

Therefore, the best and only reliable method is that a designated officer physically visits the registrar’s office with a photocopy of the certificate, mark sheets and sometimes even hall cards to verify the authenticity of the degree.

Certain important aspects of this verification:

1. Colleges and Universities usually provide verification via a manual process through their own staff.

2. If the candidate is a female, it should be made sure that the information submitted reflects the actual (maiden) name with which the candidate graduated, as at times, she might provide her married name, which might be different from the maiden one.

3. Most of the verification agencies would not verify degrees belonging to universities categorized as fake by the UGC, and revert the verification request to the employer

4. We maintain the database of fake universities, Universities not affiliated with UGC, unapproved institutions of AICTE.

5. Strong and vast connects with colleges and universities to get the verification on upmost priority,

Our recommendation:

We can verify certificates across Class X, Class XII, Bachelor’s, and Master’s and Doctorate levels. At the minimum, we recommend that the highest-level certificate for every employee must be verified.