1. Automating Ex-Employee Verification

SpringVerify’s Ex-Employee Verification revolutionizes the traditional verification process, turning time-consuming tasks into opportunities for revenue generation. Automating verifications, not only boosts HR productivity but also transforms cost centers into profit sources. With a simple one-click integration into your HRMS, SpringVerify streamlines the process, eliminating the need for manual form-filling or call responses. Moreover, each successful verification becomes a new revenue stream for your organization, enhancing your financial performance effortlessly.

Interested? Get started now: https://portal.in.springverify.com/signIn 

2. One-click Slack connect:

Connect with us on Slack effortlessly with just one click. Say farewell to waiting and welcome immediate resolution to your issues. If you’re using SpringVerify – simply go to the ‘MENU’ and select ‘Message us on Slack’. This one-click solution ensures your questions and concerns are quickly addressed.

Want quick connect with our Customer Success Manager?

Follow this link: https://portal.in.springverify.com/slack-connect.

3. Instant Payment Confirmation:

As soon as you finalize a purchase, we ensure an invoice is on its way to you through email, traveling swiftly through cyberspace. This instant process is not just efficient; it keeps you fully informed about your transactions at all times.

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1. Enhanced Bulk Candidate Upload

A seamless, three-step process for uploading up to 1000 candidate details simultaneously. Directly import from your HRMS/ATS, enjoy the flexibility in data mapping, and let our AI clean and correct your data, identifying any discrepancies for quick adjustments. This efficient, drag-and-drop feature reduces manual effort and error, ensuring a smooth verification journey. Experience this streamlined process firsthand with an exclusive demo tour, showcasing our AI’s power to simplify your verification tasks. 

2. Portal Login Made Easy with Google and Microsoft Credentials

SpringVerify now offers seamless Google SSO (Single Sign-On) integration, allowing you to log into our portal using your Google Work Email ID or Microsoft credentials. This new feature streamlines access by eliminating the need for separate login credentials. Plus, manage user access effortlessly—when someone leaves your organization, they’re automatically removed from SpringVerify. Simplify your login process and ensure secure, efficient user management with our Google SSO login feature.

3. Streamlined Legal Consent Process for Blue-Collar Workforce

Simplifying the process of obtaining online legal consent from the blue-collar workforce, we introduce a one-time “Consent Undertaking Letter.” This innovative approach means HR professionals no longer face the hassle of collecting individual consent. By submitting a letter confirming the company’s responsibility for obtaining legal consent from candidates, the verification process can commence without individual submissions. This ensures compliance while significantly easing the administrative burden on HR teams. 

4. Personalized Check Recommendations

Embrace the future of hiring with personalized check recommendations that move beyond the “one-size-fits-all” approach. Leveraging advanced analytics, we compare your candidate data with industry standards to customize verification checks that align precisely with your recruitment needs. This strategic, data-driven method enhances the quality of your hires, ensuring a perfect match for your organization’s unique requirements. Learn more about it here: [Link]

May 2023 Product Updates

1. Unified Payments Flow
   Say goodbye to making multiple payments on SpringVerify
   Earlier you could make payments either for Packages only or Credits only in one go. Now you can make payments for both Packages and Credits at the same time. Just choose the packages you need, select the credit amount, and make a single payment for everything at once. You’ll get recharge recommendations based on your usage history for easy decision-making.

2. Request Payment Feature
No more going back and forth with your finance teams to make payments.
Create an order on SpringVerify and send out an invite to your finance team member(s) from the portal. They can make payments, download invoices and more, all by themselves (without access to the dashboard or candidate details).

3. Additional Cost settings page
Approval of Additional Costs delaying your verification process? Worry no more.
Automate approval of Additional Costs while still being in control of how much you spend. Set a threshold for the auto-approval of additional costs. This will help in faster verification and still ensure you are well within your approval budgets.

January 2023 Product Updates

1. SpringVerify now has Enterprise Grade Security!
   To improve users’ data privacy and secure the platform from any misuse. We have introduced a set of security settings that you can enable. It’s the second layer authentication mechanism available to SpringVerify admins to improve protection against threats to the access and usage of candidate/company data. It includes
   • Password Expiry – Mandate changing passwords periodically
   • Domain Whitelist – Anybody with an email ID outside your company domain is denied access
   • Auto Logout – Logout devices that are idle
   • Auto Disable User – Disable access to employees who quit your organization.
     Learn here about these security setting options in more detail.

2. Bring your organization’s culture alive from Day-0 by customizing candidate communication. A Communication Settings Page is now available to you, with which you can manage the Background Verification Invite email (and Consent email) that goes out to your candidates. Through these settings, you can customize the company logo, brand name, message and even reminder emails that get sent out to candidates.

3. SpringVerify’s new API page now allows you to generate API Keys for all your custom integration needs with any platform – HRMS/ATS/Payroll/Slack etc. You can either generate a never-ending API key or a short-lived API key based on your need right from the SpringVerify dashboard.
   Read more here.
   SpringVerify currently integrates with top HRMS natively, but this feature allows you to integrate SpringVerify with any platform you want.

4. An upgraded transactions page for all purchase history details with invoices is now on SpringVerify. A unified transactions page that lets you track your purchases and invoices all in one place. Your finance teams will thank you.

Not just that, we’re constantly working on new improvements and here’s what’s gotten better in our existing features:

• We’ve given Export Case Reports an upgrade by adding a clickable verification report link, candidate’s SVID and a better file naming format.
• You now have the option to auto-trim all white spaces on input fields on the SpringVerify dashboard and on the background verification form, which helps in easily adding data.

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This story involves an employee who furnished a fake work experience letter, a lot of calls from SpringVerify to the candidate and the employer, and a surprising email from the candidate demanding we get a search warrant.

[Note: We are not naming names here, for obvious reasons. And, we want to portray the story as it occurred to let organizations know that no one is immune to such a scenario, no matter how big or small you are.]

One of our partner companies, who has been using our background verification (BGV) services — SpringVerify, to verify their employees, came across a case of one of their recent hires with a fake work experience. The previous workex shared by this employee didn’t even last a month while what he had claimed an experience of over 18 months. This was unearthed during the BGV process by the SpringVerify team.

To make matters worse, the candidate, even after providing consent for a background verification to SpringVerify on behalf of the company, was adamant about not allowing an address check to happen.

This is what the candidate had to say when we reached out multiple times over phone and email for assistance to do address check.

The candidate wanted us to get a search warrant for what is a routine industry-wide process of address verification.

Note that confirming an address doesn’t require entering the property/premises. Also, as a private firm we don’t have the authority to get search warrants. We reached out to communicate this to the HR team and shared our findings, including the email.

At this point, because of the nature of the reply that we got from the candidate, we knew that something was amiss!

Post this, the HR team communicated to the candidate about the experience mismatch and enquired why the candidate wouldn’t allow the address check.

The conversation never happened as the candidate absconded on realizing that there is a background check initiated and knew what the outcome could look like.

Unfortunately, we couldn’t initiate a dialogue between the recruiter and the candidate. We will never know how severe the case was.

We can’t say if it was a case of espionage or just an example of a desperate candidate manipulating the experience to get a job.

The result of all of this?

Every implication and judgment apart, the candidate will now have to look for another job. The employer would have to search for another candidate to fill in the position.

On the employer’s part though, there is a huge sigh of relief for having found this discrepancy earlier rather than later.

The employer now knows that there could be such cases and would be cautious going forward. They’ve reached out to us saying they’d now like to have background checks done even before a candidate joins their team. It is a significant step forward for them towards building a great team.

But, that is not the only thing we want to talk about here!

We want to understand why this happened and would like to help the employment community as a whole. We want to showcase how this could be avoided.

For the candidates

State your true experience and past. More than half of the employers would understand any scenario you might have faced in your previous employment. They would look at it with empathy and would make substantial efforts to see if you could fit in. The hiring team of any company puts in great effort to find candidates, and it is in their best interest to fill in any position, fast! And, more often than not, the employer will take your showcasing of truth as the first step towards trust.

For the employer

It is always good to conduct a background check for everyone in your organization. Once you have and find that there is a discrepancy with any of the information provided by a candidate, there should be a conversation about it. The discussion should entail efforts to understand the situation from an empathetic and economic standpoint.

More often than not, the discrepancy is not so severe as to attract termination of employment. Understanding the circumstance of the candidate could be the start of a great relationship between the organization and the same candidate.

We believe that except for a very handful of cases like espionage, false degree, etc., most other examples could be overlooked and discussed over a table for a candidate who wants to be in a position.

Background verification is a crucial step while hiring someone to ensure zero risks and complications in the future. Organizations need to check past records, credit score, work experience, criminal records, and more.

Why is employee background verification important?

This helps employers understand the effectiveness of their decision as well. If your hiring decision goes wrong, it can impact the company’s growth and performance. It is probable that some information mentioned in the resume is inaccurate. Hence, companies need ways to identify these roadblocks.

Why should you use automated tools for background verification?

When you automate your BGV process, you have the option to significantly reduce the time and efforts required. All you have to do is add the necessary details and documents, and the rest of the job is done by your verification software. And moreover, the results offered by the tool are more accurate than the manual process.

Hence, it is best to go for a software or a tool that helps automate your BGV process and increase its efficiency.

For us at SpringVerify

We would like to talk to the candidate and the employer and moderate a dialogue between the two. We ideally want a single verification process for a working individual. And we want to reduce the effort for the recruiting community.

In the future, we’d ideally help the candidate and the employer understand the severity of any discrepancy and would encourage a healthy dialogue before any decisions are made.

About SpringVerify

SpringVerify is the modern take on the age-old problem of employee verification being costly, tedious, and out of reach of small businesses. We are trying to build a platform where the employee verification process happens seamlessly and with minimal effort required from both the company and the employee.

We believe that employee verification is a must for any business. It is a critical process in ensuring that every employee working with you is faithful and could be trusted. CareerBuilder survey shows that a company stands to lose on average $15000 on one wrong hire.

We have built the platform with blockchain and believe that it will change virtually everything it comes in contact with. Blockchain helps us in building a decentralized system which keeps all our data secure and immutable.

Doing background verification yourself is complicated and time-consuming. Try our employee background verification platform, SpringVerify – where employee verifications happen seamlessly and with minimal effort required from both the company.

FAQ

How far do most background checks go?

• Background check goes upto criminal records upto past 7 years.
• Same goes for the credit check of the individual, but sometimes can extend upto 10 years as well, depending on their salary.
• Education and employment history can be verified throughout their lifetime.
• Driving records can be between 3 to 10 years.

2. Does a background check mean you got the job?

No, background checks don’t always indicate a 100% confirmation of the job. But it shows that the candidate is in the radar. If the candidate passes the screening test, chances are they might get an offer letter.

3. Is background check compared to the resume?

It is not necessary but not uncommon as well. Often the details provided by you are also cross-referenced with your resume.

4. How long does it take to hear back from the employer after the BGV process?

A candidate does not immediately hear back after the process is complete. A review of the results is done first, this might take up to a week. That’s when the decision is made.

5. Why is my BGV process taking so long?

The most common reason can be a delay in receiving the information. The employer has to rely on other parties to get the information and records and it might take a while.

[Originally published July 31, 2019 Last Updated April 25, 2022]

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“Ideally, in a hiring process there should only be one interview. In this interview, the HR manager should evaluate the candidate as an individual to see if there is a cultural fit and a whiff of emotional equity. The rest can, and should be taken care of using technology.”

This is the ideal recruiting and hiring scenario painted by our CEO, Kartik Mandaville.

“We are far from such a scenario,” he continues. “There are professional profiles online, better social attestations of skills, better profile matching algorithms, hiring ATSs and online skill evaluation platforms. Yet, there are major gaps in our processes today. We aim to bridge these gaps. We are building the tools and products which would lead us to a recruiting future which we feel should have been ours already.”

Almost all of the technology we are building right now revolves around the above thesis. We found something lacking in the current system and changed it.

SpringVerify is one such piece in the larger puzzle of hiring. We found that there was little to no technology being used in background verification processes. Background checks were still being done by using the same old paper forms, collecting hard copies of documents, and worse still, providing physical reports.

This had to change. There is a lot which could be done in the background verification space. For one, we could do good using online forms and provide digital reports.

Obviously, SpringVerify does more than just provide online forms to be filled. You can read about the processes we use and how we reduce time by more than 30% here.

The future of work

The future is remote. Collaboration needs to happen between folks living thousands of miles apart. It is already happening, and we will see more and more teams spread across the globe.

The working landscape has changed dramatically over the last couple of decades. Things have moved from being efficiency-centric to being human-centric. There is a great emphasis on building a team which will resonate the brand values, the company culture, and the cohesiveness needed to pull off amazing work. The trend will only accelerate from here on.

With the advent of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and blockchain; every job role is set for a major overhaul in the coming years. Work will entail more creativity and more of how we use technology to automate the non-creative parts.

Great teams aren’t a product of chance. They are built meticulously. We believe the focus of future hires would fall back to human capacity and compatibility. Hiring fast and hiring right will become a core focus of any team going forward if it is not already.

We are building technologies to drive the future of work.

Hiring in the future will need to be super-efficient. Technology will have solved some of the problems we are facing right now. But hiring the right candidate will become tougher.

Hiring rights are crucial to long term business success. At Springworks, we want to be at the forefront of helping businesses hire the right talent, and enable them to then perform at their best. We are building products which will solve major roadblocks for hiring teams and enable higher productivity, collaboration, and efficiency.

Background Verification is only one of many aspects which needs to improve. SpringVerify addresses it beautifully.

Creating authentic reputation based profiles is another, and we are solving it with SpringRole.

Unlocking the human potential

This is just the start.

We believe that human potential should not be wasted in managing the mundane. Processes which take up time and have longer learning curves are a waste of time.

We believe every process could be better, more efficient, and human-centric. And, we believe work could genuinely be fun — more creative — more of building — and less of managing.

We want to enable everyone to be more productive, work with amazing people, have fun doing what they love the most, and build things which matter.

You can expect us to build everything which will push the envelope towards a future envisioned by Kartik, and then some more.

In the process, we hope to deliver the future of work to everyone.

Doing background verification yourself is complicated and time-consuming. Try our employee background verification platform, Springverify – where employee verifications happen seamlessly and with minimal effort required from both the company.

About SpringVerify

SpringVerify is the modern take on the age-old problem of employee verification being costly, tedious, and out of reach of small businesses. We are trying to build a platform where the employee verification process happens seamlessly and with minimal effort required from both the company and the employee.

We believe that employee verification is a must for any business. It is a critical process in ensuring that every employee working with you is faithful and could be trusted. CareerBuilder survey shows that a company stands to lose on average $17000 on a wrong hire. Read more here.

We have built the platform with blockchain and believe that it will change virtually everything it comes in contact with. Blockchain helps us in building a decentralized system which keeps all our data secure and immutable. Read more here.

About SpringRole

SpringRole is enabling everyone’s #VerifiedProfessionalProfile on the Blockchain. It is a decentralized attestation-based professional network platform powered by the blockchain.

SpringRole is the platform where people can view, share, and get attestations on their professional profile, thereby creating a verified resume that they can share and use. The organizations themselves verify a user’s educational qualifications and work experience, which is written directly to the blockchain. To assess a user’s skill set, SpringRole has a system of weighted endorsements that let users objectively look at people’s profiles and evaluate their skill level.

FAQ

What is Blockchain technology?

Blockchain is a place to store information in a much more secured manner, impossible to hack. It is a ledger of transactions distributed across the network.

How does Blockchain affect recruitment?

With more automation, Blockchain makes the process more efficient and time-saving for both the recruiters and the candidates. Hence, with an enhanced candidate experience, Blockchain helps in an easier and faster hiring process.

Will Blockchain be the future?

The scope of Blockchain is seen to be growing a lot in future, and in different sectors like finance, data analysis, and more. It is definitely the future.

Why is blockchain a disruptive technology in Human Resource management?

Blockchain offers more accessibility and affordability to regulate HR tasks. These tasks are now much more convenient for HR professionals to carry out. It helps them focus on newer and more important tasks rather than manually focusing on one.

[Published July 4, 2019 Last Updated May 12, 2022]

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