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AUTHBRIDGE
AWARDED BEST PARTNER BY IBM
After an association
of more than 2 years and nearly 20000 background checks, IBM Daksh
awarded AuthBridge Research Services the BEST PARTNER in BACKGROUND
SCREENING during their Annual Day celebration on March 31, 2008.
The award reaffirms
the belief AuthBridge has on its processes stringently followed for
all verifications. Challenges and roadblocks are countered with
creative panache’.
IBM Daksh follows the
3-Ds of deepening client relationships, differentiated solutions
& delivering globally. AuthBridge aims to be a client-centric
organization partnering in providing an integral process for safer
hiring and risk mitigation. The partnering is obviously successful
and mutually gainful.
AUTHBRIDGE
GETS ISO 9001:2000 CERTIFIED BY PERRY JOHNSON
REGISTRARS
Months of sustained
effort culminated on March 26 2008 with AuthBridge Research Services
being recommended for ISO 9001:2000 certification by the Auditors of
Perry Johnson Registrars, one of the foremost certification bodies
in North America and one of the registrars on the US General Services
Administration (GS-10F-0025K). They have also been recognized by
several accreditation bodies across the Americas and Europe, including ANAB
(USA), RvA (Netherlands), UKAS
(UK), INMETRO
(Brazil), SINCERT
(Italy) and TGA
(Germany).
The ISO certification
further cements the belief AuthBridge has in following and
continually working to further improve the processes to better
Customer Experience. The constructive feedback from all the Clients
provided the foundation to work continually towards strengthening
and making the processes more robust. Proud of being certified,
AuthBridge does not see the ISO certification as an end in itself.
It is but another confident step into building a stronger foundation
and a path to continuously refine and improve the way of working and
in the results delivered.
FAKING
YALE
Yale, an IVY League
school connotes academic excellence, selectivity in admissions, and
a reputation for social elitism quite on the lines of IIMs &
IITs in India. Yet, or more
likely, thus, Yale appears to have a chequered record of fraudulent
and faked admittance.
From 1995 onwards,
Yale records show some 7 cases of defrauded admissions. Does that
belie a trend? Or should it be seen as aberrations? Does it make a
case for screening the documents of new admissions? What are the
possible fallouts of these ‘wrong’ entries into the hallmark
institutions?
The most recent case
of a Akash Maharaj brings to the fore the question
of screening admission documents with more force than ever
before.
With straight A’s
from Columbia, Maharaj managed a $32000
scholarship from Yale and another $15000 from Federal loans. After
the deceit was discovered, it further came to light that Maharaj
changed from New York
University to Columbia and
then to Yale.
Stranger still is the
case of Patrick McDermit in 1977 for whom the charade
was the whole point. A grudge with the L.A. Recruiting officer who
stated McDermit would never make it egged him on to create an
alter-ego and prove the officer wrong.
So he started
pondering what it would take to prove the recruiting officer wrong,
imagining a 20-year-old with “the most amazing record possible,” he
said. He started composing a complete life story — and then stepped
inside it.
His fantastic story
fooled all till McDermit turned himself in and initially faced no
consequences except banishment from Yale property. But his story
sparked a national media obsession in newspapers and TV shows.
THE OBC
QUESTION
Fake grades and
tampered documents etc are it appears passé at admissions to elite
and also not-so-elite academia. With 27% reservation getting the SC
nod, chances of eager students faking the caste certificate are not
fictional. As easy as it is to get yourself a Caste Certificate with
a few palms greased; it will be quite a challenge to verify the same
with process being riddled with holes.
A Caste Certificate is an
easy route to success. Verifying its authenticity at education or
employment stages will be a challenge but the damage done cannot be
redeemed. |
FROM OUR
CEO’s DESK
Indeed,
the screening industry is evolving. New vistas create new
opportunities.
The
frauds revealed at Yale are eye-openers for all educational
institutions. The instances give further credence to institutions
streamlining and collating data of their students for easy
verification for both; other educational bodies and
employers.
Cases
of fake caste certificates will be innumerable considering the value
it holds for a significant segment of the Indian society. Challenge
will be to systematize the procedure of verification of the
document. With the procedure of issuing Caste certificates so fluid,
it is indeed an upstream swim to validate the authenticity of the
issued document.
A case
where an education institution reverted in writing that the earlier
disposition as Fake was an oversight on their part opens a thought
about the genuineness of the other responses. Was it truly an
oversight or are we to question the integrity of the written
response?
ISO
9001:2000
The ISO
Certification, an important milestone for the organisation as the
audits assisted us validate and strengthen our processes as did the
constructive feedback we have consistently received from all our
clients.
IBM
Award for Best Partner in Business further strengthens our belief in
our processes and motivates us to work continually towards further
improvements.
Moments
like this are greatly valued.
We look
forward to all feedback, positive or otherwise which help us mature
our processes.
Ajay
Trehan
CEO,
AuthBridge |
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ABOUT
AUTHBRIDGE
AuthBridge,
one of
leading professional pre-employment background
screening firms, headquartered in Gurgaon, India’s services hub situated next to
New
Delhi.
With
FCRA compliance and ethical business processes in place, AuthBridge
provides authentic verification services to companies in
India.
Our
pre-employment background screening services
include:
·
Address
Verification
·
Education
Verification
·
Employer
Verification
·
Criminal
Records Verification
·
Gap
Verification
·
Database
Checks
·
Reference
Verification
With
nearly 25% resumes carrying false or inaccurate data, ensuring safe
recruitment processes is undeniably high on the priority list.
Companies, healthcare establishments, educational institutions all
need to guard against the chance of an inapt
recruitment.
Background
Screening is conducted for freshers, for experienced recruits, for
Staff & Administration of Educational Institutions, for
Healthcare Staff & Administration among others. |
An ISO
9001:2000 company
AuthBridge
is an Empanelled Background Checker with National Skills Registry –
a NASSCOM initiative
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