Fresh out of college and yet not a placement in hand surely creates beads of perspiration on any freshers’ forehead. To add on to the pain if the market seems to be down and months go by awaiting even one single call, out of sheer desperation many freshers resort to a practice. Getting fake experience certificates made, talking of previous illustrious experiences. The best part is it works for quite many in getting them their very first break and then they take their flights towards their dream companies. Yet there are some who get caught in random background verifications and are shown doors, bringing them back to square one.
So what is the point in getting fake certificates and starting a career like that? Students, job seekers have variety of answer ready for the occasion. Do the organizations who issue such certificates too? Can it be clubbed under a similar genre where social work belongs to? For many job seekers who avail this facility have a relative / family / friend working in an elite company by good standards and see it as a ticket to easy accessibility to the HR. So we have letter heads of Companies floating around the industry for people they’ve never known and remote chances they would ever.
So why is it that Organization’s think it’s not that great an issue to be worried about?
1. To get rid of a pestering employee, who visits the HR department every alternate day inquiring about the status
2. To oblige friends and colleagues at work, perhaps someday they too can help the HR in a situation
3. It doesn’t matter as dozens come every quarter for the same
4. To help a guy needy of kick starting a career
5. It’s hardly a matter of time and the first companies are always forgotten as one moves up the ladder
AND why is it that Organizations should begin to worry of the prevailing practice?
1. We believe in what we see, so the job seeker carrying a fake certificate ends up being a brand ambassador for the Organization
2. Motifs, ID Cards, Logos, Letter heads, Mugs, T-shirts bearing Company punchlines have always been associated with a factor that generates pride and attachment to an Organization. So selling or dispatching the letter heads in the market is almost like diluting the value of it. Or atleast that is what I learnt in my Organization Structure, Process and Design paper at B-school.
3. Lucky are those times when the job seeker may turn out to be gold, however if the person cannot rise to the occasion, imagine getting a ‘Continuous Excellency Certificate’ at previous employer and a barely scraping through at the next one. Will it really benefit the person in the long run?
4. Question of ethics & responsibility to the society and coming years of innovative technology + resources
5. Recruitment costs (to find a new replacement to the new hire for non-performance) and Training & Development costs (to polish the person) increase manifold
6. A recognition certificate is something that motivates an employee to put in better and efficient efforts at the workplace. In fact I have seen employees cherishing the feel good factor that certificates bring, by placing it on their workstations religiously. The following year, there comes another to add on to the smile swelling of pride. Will these job seekers ever cherish the fake experience certificate with kind words written on it? Will it help to motivate them strive for their passion?
7. Are we as Organizations really enabling the future workforce to bring out its best?
Similar is the case for Project / Summer Trainees where Organizations are reluctant to allow them do something useful and creative for 6 – 8 weeks, invest in them and tap their potential and believe the best way to get rid of them is by issuing a certificate.
Can Organizations vouch for their knowledge and expertise too?
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