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When you work in recruitment, you need a discerning eye to detect applicants who aren't being honest. Over the years, we've seen several telltale signs of trickery involving written reference letters, and we want to share these signs with those new to the field of recruitment. So here are some ways to tell that the written references that an applicant submits may, in fact, be fraudulent: • You receive three letters,
using the same font style and the same font size,
saying the same thing, and signed by three different
people who use the same pen and have very similar
signatures.
• Similarly, you receive
different letters from supposedly different individuals,
each of which has the same word spelled
incorrectly.
• The person writing the
reference cannot spell her/his own name
correctly.
• The "letterhead" contains
spelling errors.
• The applicant asks you
not to call the person who "provided" the reference. And here are some ways that deceit may be discovered if a recruiter calls the person who "provided" the reference: • The person named as writer
of the reference says, "What reference letter for
Jane Doe?"
• The person named as writer
of the reference says, "Who's John Doe?"
• You call the number given
for Facility X, and the number is out of service.
You call Information to get the current number, and
find there's no Facility X, or facility similar to
Facility X in the community.
• You call Facility X,
and ask to speak to Nurse Manager Mary Smith, and
you discover that there has never been any such person
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