Recruitment · HR managers · Recruitment firms · Executives
Employment background checks and CV verification
Verify employment history, qualifications and inconsistencies before recruitment. INVESTIPOLE conducts focused CV and resume checks without intrusive blanket screening.
Confidentiality. The monitoring is tailored to the position, the risk, and the information provided to the candidate before any procedure.
AUDIT BEFORE HIRING
CV checks by a private detective: degrees, experience and references
A recruitment is based on a few decisive statements: a required degree, certification, job dates, job title, management scope. Checking a CV involves confirming these points from reliable sources before hiring, promotion or sensitive appointment.
THE PARK, NOT PRIVATE LIFE
The career, never the private life.
The starting point: the requirements of the position and the precise statements of the CV. Your detectives can interview the school on a diploma, cross-reference the dates of an experiment with other sources, verify that a company existed or collect an announced reference to the candidate.
No private account is consulted, no refusal circumvented, no data outside of the recruitment collected. A silent source is reported as such, without ever proving a lie.
FOUR TREATABLE STEPS
How does a CV check go?
Three possible exits for each controlled point: confirmed, unverifiable or inconsistent.
Defining the need
Position, risks, decisive statements of the CV and purpose of control shall be determined before any steps are taken.
Informing the candidate
The HR managers informs the candidate of the planned checks; Investipole monitors the relevance of each point and the mobilizable references.
Cross-checking with sources
Schools, certifying bodies, former employers, company registers and designated referents are requested in accordance with the written agreement.
Report and decision
Approaches, answers and limitations are presented in chronological order; the decision to hire remains that of the employer.
MENSONG, ERROR OR EXAGER
Fake CV, fake degree, recruitment fraud: distinguish before deciding
An error is not a fraud. Nature of the gap, importance for the position and weight in the hiring decision must be weighed.
Invented diploma, certification never obtained, fictitious employer, dates stretched to mask a hole, highly inflated management: these gaps count. A title translated otherwise, a company renamed or approximate date is not enough to prove a will to deceive.
What gets confirmed
Diploma obtained or not, valid certification, periods of employment, job actually held, quality of reference.
Which makes sense
Translated title, staggered dates, company absorbed or renamed, partial response from a source.
What the report leaves to the decision-maker
The candidate's intention and legal action are never presumed in the report.
WHAT CAN BE VERIFIED
Checking an employee's CV: what to look for?
The position to be filled dictates the list of checks; curiosity is never part of it.
Degrees and certifications
Experience and background
Existence of the employer, periods worked, position held, sequence of dates, verifiable responsibilities.
Professional references
Quality of the reference, real working relationship, precise facts about missions, within the framework announced to the candidate.
Overseas experience
Foreign universities, subsidiaries, companies bought or disappeared, translated documents, referents outside France.
SECURING THE BAUCHE
Why check a CV before hiring?
The intensity of control depends on the post and cost of false information.
Mandatory qualification
To ensure a diploma, an authorization or a title without which the function cannot be exercised.
Exposed positions
Secure access to funds, data, sensitive premises, delegation of authority or signature.
International mobility
Cross-reference schools, employers and referents abroad, taking into account local languages and practices.
Management roles
To monitor the consistency of a career as a manager, commercial, financial or technical director, or a regulated profession.
FRANCE AND FOREIGN TRADE
Checking a CV in France or abroad, whatever the background
The private detectives of Investipole work for companies, recruitment firms, HR managers and lawyers throughout France. The same case may concern several cities, or a journey abroad with its languages, institutions and rules.
When the applicant has worked in several countries, each source is assessed before being asked. The number of schools, employers and referents to question sets the deadlines and budget.
CASE EXAMPLES
CV checks: four investigation cases
These anonymous files show an approach; none is an automatic verdict on a candidate.
Diploma required
Master’s required for a finance role: registration confirmed, diploma not verified
For a financial control station, one company had selected a candidate who declared a specialized master's degree as an indispensable condition of recruitment. The scope was defined and the candidate informed before any steps were taken. Three points were checked: the institution, the exact title of the training and the year announced. School response: the candidate had been enrolled, but the graduation, presented as acquired, was not confirmed. The report cited this answer, distinguished registration and diploma, and specified the limits of the examination. Before deciding, the employer invited the candidate to provide his certificate and explain. The mission was not intended to conclude that there was fraud. Its purpose: to secure a decisive point through an identified source, leaving room for a contradictory exchange.
Executive position
A national team that turns out to be regional
A group recruiting its commercial director wanted to verify an experience described as the management of a national team and the management of a substantial budget. Dates and title of the position were confirmed by the former employer. However, the available documents and authorized reference showed a limited area within a region, without direct supervision of the staff put forward. Investipole distinguished verifiable facts, i.e. period, title and connection, subjective assessments, which could not be treated as evidence. The report showed an exaggerated responsibility, without denying the existence of the position. As a result, the recruiter resumed interviewing on specific grounds rather than excluding the application on impression or corridor information.
Empowerment
A technical clearance to be renewed before starting the job
Before hiring a technician for a site with strict security rules, an industrialist wanted to check his CV. He mentioned a professional clearance without valid date. The result of the examination was that the training was actually followed, but the title to be renewed before the arrival on the site. The research remained limited to the required skills. The report described the controlled document, the issuing body and the deadline raised. The company maintained the job, making it subject to re-qualification on the ground. A gap is therefore not always a lie: checking a CV can also avoid bad reading and open a measured solution.
Overseas experience
An untraceable foreign employer, actually renamed
A candidate's career included three years in a foreign company that lacked records available under this name. To conclude with a fictitious employer would have been hasty: Investipole traced the legal and commercial history of the company. Result: an absorption by a group, then a change of name. Dates and function could be intertwined thanks to an old business address and an archive piece. The report explained the failure of the first search and documented the continuity between the two entities. The doubt was removed and the consistency of the CV confirmed. Therefore, a lack of result must be placed in its context, especially after international mobility, merger or brand change.
YOUR QUESTIONS
CV check: your questions
Each response depends on the position, timing of the check and what was announced to the candidate.
What is a false CV?
A CV that displays an unqualified degree, a invented experience, dates modified to hide a period, or a largely inflated level of responsibility.
Date mistake or fraud: how to tell the difference?
An inaccuracy, a different translation or a staggered date are not the scope of a false determinant qualification. Before any conclusion, the context is examined and the candidate invited to explain.
Can we check a candidate's social media?
Consultation with a professional public profile is permitted, provided that the candidate has been informed beforehand. Only information relevant to the position can be retained. Private accounts are never circumvented, either by false profiles or by a friend's request.
What budget should we plan for a CV check?
The price of a private detective to check a CV varies from 90 to 120 € tax excl. per hour according to several criteria, with free quotation. A first level of control, limited to France, starts around 650 € tax excl. For an international journey, one day's research costs approximately 975 € tax excl.; the all-inclusive five-day package amounts to approximately €4,500 excluding VAT
How long does it take to check a CV?
It all depends on the responsiveness of schools, employers and referents, with often longer deadlines for a trip abroad. An estimate is given after analysis of the sources to be requested.
What does the verification report include?
The scope, the procedures, the sources sought, which is confirmed, unverified or inconsistent, and the limits encountered. The report can be produced in court; the judge appreciates its value. The decision to hire remains with the employer.
CONFIDENTIAL EXCHANGE
Safe hiring starts with a well-structured check.
Indicate the post, CV points to be checked, countries concerned and your calendar, by phone or contact@investipole.fr. Investipole checks the feasibility and legal framework, then sends you a written proposal with a free quotation.
Diplomas, experiences and references · France and abroad