06 Mar In the Rush to Hire, Watch Out for Everything from Minor Fraud to Deep Fakes

By Bryce Edwards, ACRP

If your organization finds itself having both the need and available funding for new hires in 2024, don’t get so excited about onboarding those eager newcomers that you skip due diligence regarding the bona fides of the credentials they claim in their resumes and applications, a clinical research hiring authority says. 

“The clinical research job market is very active right now, with lots of pressure being put on under-resourced organizations to recruit and retain new talent whenever they can afford to do so,” notes Bryce Edwards, a Senior Operations Associate with Advanced Clinical and a subject matter expert in identifying fraudulent candidates who screens and onboards candidates for a major contract research organization (CRO). “But in the rush to get new people up and running on stage or in more background roles, as it were, for important research projects, companies need to pay attention to whether an applicant has really achieved all the things they claim or, in an even more worrisome scenario, whether they are even who they say they are.” 

There are often scenarios where potential hires can attempt to use fake credentials for employment purposes by providing for example, a false name and Social Security number, which can oftentimes still pass a background check, even with the fraudulent information. Read more…