I've ranted about the "verification process" of large employers earlier. I've also posted one rant already today. But there isn't any rationing going on, is there?
Dear Ms. so-and-so
Please stop sending us passive aggressive messages such as:
"Please co-operate as your delayed response would impede the verification process and eventually the career of the candidate."
If anyone is going to be responsible for creating any impediments to the career prospects of the candidate, it will be your organisation, the organisation that has contracted your organisation to verify the candidate, and you yourself. We never elected to be part of your verification process. You never even bothered to seek our permission before sending us this request. You just assume that we have nothing better to do than to respond to your request. You believe that by hounding us over email, sending us threats that the career of our ex-employee will be destroyed by our inaction, and terrorising the poor fellow into calling us multiple times a day, you will force us into stop doing the real work we do and start participating in this meaningless verification process.
Seriously, who do you people think you are? And what gives you this misplaced sense of entitlement? Merely because your corporation has put you in a position of power does not mean you abuse that power into harassing candidates and their former employers. If you really are a "forensics analyst", as you so pompously claim in your email signature, then, well, indulge in some forensics madam. Or has KPMG redefined harassment to be called forensics?
And don't you begin to tell me that the career of the candidate will be impeded. At Thinvent, we do not destroy careers, we build careers. Over the last eight years of our existence, more than fifty fresh graduates of this country have been given an opportunity at our company. And none of them were unpaid interns. They were all fully paid, full time employees that large organisations would not look at for want of experience. And we gave them that experience. And training. And salary. And real work to do. And a sense of identity. Your meaningless verification process will not take that away from the candidate, whether you pass or fail him.
And why will I not participate in this charade of yours? Well, firstly, because you did not have the courtesy of actually asking beforehand if we would be willing to participate. You could have called and asked, or emailed. But no, you just thrust this responsibility upon us. And secondly, because people in our company have a lot of real work to do. We do not have a dedicated HR department that is jobless enough to play verification-verification with other HR departments. With more than 50 employees having "graduated" from Thinvent, we get a lot of verifications requests. Especially because after leaving us, these guys can't seem to work at one place for more than an year before changing again (which, given the attitude of their employers, is hardly surprising). And everytime they change, fellows like you come "investigating" their history since the time of their college graduation.
No, our company will not be a joining you as a cog in your mindless corporate process. I would appreciate very much if you put us on a do not call list, or a black list of some sort. It will save your colleagues the trouble that you are going through right now.
Regards,
Saurabh Jain
PS: I took the liberty of looking you up on Facebook and LinkedIn. You look like a very nice person. Yes, my anger and dissatisfaction above is directed at you, personally, because you emailed us persistently. However, it is more a grouse with your entire industry which invariably behaves with the same sense of superiority and impunity. What can you do about it? Change yourself. If you hadn't sent me the kind of email you sent, I would not have responded the way I did. We can all be nice and polite with each other even while we are busy meeting our targets. Also, in your next meeting, you can bring up a process change request where you actually ask companies for permission before seeking verification. And if they deny the request, perhaps because they are a small company like us, then create options for that within your process.
Dear Ms. so-and-so
Please stop sending us passive aggressive messages such as:
"Please co-operate as your delayed response would impede the verification process and eventually the career of the candidate."
If anyone is going to be responsible for creating any impediments to the career prospects of the candidate, it will be your organisation, the organisation that has contracted your organisation to verify the candidate, and you yourself. We never elected to be part of your verification process. You never even bothered to seek our permission before sending us this request. You just assume that we have nothing better to do than to respond to your request. You believe that by hounding us over email, sending us threats that the career of our ex-employee will be destroyed by our inaction, and terrorising the poor fellow into calling us multiple times a day, you will force us into stop doing the real work we do and start participating in this meaningless verification process.
Seriously, who do you people think you are? And what gives you this misplaced sense of entitlement? Merely because your corporation has put you in a position of power does not mean you abuse that power into harassing candidates and their former employers. If you really are a "forensics analyst", as you so pompously claim in your email signature, then, well, indulge in some forensics madam. Or has KPMG redefined harassment to be called forensics?
And don't you begin to tell me that the career of the candidate will be impeded. At Thinvent, we do not destroy careers, we build careers. Over the last eight years of our existence, more than fifty fresh graduates of this country have been given an opportunity at our company. And none of them were unpaid interns. They were all fully paid, full time employees that large organisations would not look at for want of experience. And we gave them that experience. And training. And salary. And real work to do. And a sense of identity. Your meaningless verification process will not take that away from the candidate, whether you pass or fail him.
And why will I not participate in this charade of yours? Well, firstly, because you did not have the courtesy of actually asking beforehand if we would be willing to participate. You could have called and asked, or emailed. But no, you just thrust this responsibility upon us. And secondly, because people in our company have a lot of real work to do. We do not have a dedicated HR department that is jobless enough to play verification-verification with other HR departments. With more than 50 employees having "graduated" from Thinvent, we get a lot of verifications requests. Especially because after leaving us, these guys can't seem to work at one place for more than an year before changing again (which, given the attitude of their employers, is hardly surprising). And everytime they change, fellows like you come "investigating" their history since the time of their college graduation.
No, our company will not be a joining you as a cog in your mindless corporate process. I would appreciate very much if you put us on a do not call list, or a black list of some sort. It will save your colleagues the trouble that you are going through right now.
Regards,
Saurabh Jain
PS: I took the liberty of looking you up on Facebook and LinkedIn. You look like a very nice person. Yes, my anger and dissatisfaction above is directed at you, personally, because you emailed us persistently. However, it is more a grouse with your entire industry which invariably behaves with the same sense of superiority and impunity. What can you do about it? Change yourself. If you hadn't sent me the kind of email you sent, I would not have responded the way I did. We can all be nice and polite with each other even while we are busy meeting our targets. Also, in your next meeting, you can bring up a process change request where you actually ask companies for permission before seeking verification. And if they deny the request, perhaps because they are a small company like us, then create options for that within your process.