Are all LinkedIn profiles accurate? I wonder this myself sometime.

People who embellish or flat out lie on their resumes are a more common than you might think. And it’s been going on a long time before I started recruiting 30 years ago.

But now, LinkedIn is attempting to do something about it. With the help of new technology, LinkedIn will prompt employers to verify that a person actually works where they say they work. “Verified” employment will show up on LinkedIn profiles as such.

While this seems like a good step in certain ways, I can’t help but wonder about how it’s going to impact:

👉 HR folks, who will now be on the hook to confirm all these employees

👉 And people whose HR teams don’t remember or manage to confirm them

An extra barrier will make the latter a bit of a problem: in order to verify employees, employers will have to use Microsoft’s Azure. (Remember that Microsoft now owns LinkedIn.) Yes, the Azure free subscription counts, but it still creates an extra layer of difficulty for HR people to confirm their employees actually work where they say they do.

The ability to authenticate could end up being a useful tool for hiring managers and recruiters, but it remains to be seen how it all rolls out.

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