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About me: I am Vijay. I work as a recruiter for a product-based company for its development center at Bangalore. | Here is out of my little experience in elimination. What I have mentioned below are not rules of the logic of identifying fake resumes, but a general observation where the probability of a fake resume falling in the given category is very very high. 1) Absence of personal details 2) Very sterotype mail addresses, eg., For the name Raghu Reddy, the email address is something like manu_advice@..., or raghuexpert@..., which does not actually associate with a person's name etc. (I use this email address of mine to stay anonymous, something of that sort. Like manu_advice could be of Manoj, Manish etc., and the person can switch identities, or evade identification easily) 3) Only a first name is given. And if a seemingly full name is Moreover, I have observed that if the combination of the above is present, the chances that the candidate holds fake experience is almost 95%. That is the reason why I started the mail with a disclaimer because the 5% of the remaining candidates must not lose out because of personal beliefs/assumptions. Also observed, (in case of IT resumes), the names of clients *Not to miss out this part*, candidates of this sort would not mention the name of the college they studied in, the branch they specialised in, not the year they passed out, or completed their course in, instead it would be, " B.Tech from JNTU University, Hyderabad with an aggregate of 75%" Also, you would notice that the percentage would tend to be rounded figures. If you would want to confirm this. Call the candidates, the The litmus test: After they have answered none of your questions, use your lively imagination and ask them something really silly and hypothetical and non-existent. If the candidate babbles out some answer, then you have just confirmed that the candidate is a fake. I hope this was helpful and clarifies my perspective. |