So you’ve graduated and you’ve got job offers lined up. Optimistic in this economy, right?

Okay, so eventually you’ll get a job that you’ll actually need a degree to be qualified for and they’ll check with your school to make sure you passed all of your classes. Or maybe not. Many of the companies I’ve worked with don’t verify educational requirements at all. And this trend has led to a dirty little secret: resume fraud.

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I went to Las Vegas last week and had a great time.

No, no, not that type of great time. More like we went to shows, we gambled, we ate a lot, drank some and hung around the pool with people who are much prettier than I am. And no, I didn’t get tan at all. What a waste.

Anyway, Las Vegas sort of embraced its seediness with an ad campaign developed several years ago that what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.

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I’ve given a talk to several hiring managers at the importance of mistake free hiring. Not once has anyone taken this seriously. They say it is impossible. They say the study of human behavior is an imperfect science. They say there will always be mistakes.

I say that is nonsense! Of course mistake free hiring is possible and it happens every day. The question is, how do you define a mistake in a hiring process?

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One of the worst parts of being in HR is laying people off. People always ask me what the worst part of HR is if it isn’t laying people off. Informing someone of a death is much worse in my opinion. You haven’t lived HR until you have to do that. Believe me.

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