re: People will lie in job interviews.

Crazy times.

First we started calling fast food restaurants “quick service”

Now people are calling them “firms”

You didn't contact people on her reference list?!

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People will lie in job interviews

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Get the job

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How do you protect yourself against hiring a bad employee based on one good interview?

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By doing more than one.

I've been the guy who a prospective employer knew. It was all off the books...the potential employee didn't provide me as a reference and the guy who contacted me wasn't directly involved in the hire (involved, but no final say).

The dude they were trying to hire was a a complete slack arse and didn't work well independently. I told my ex-colleague (the hiring manager) as much and they did not hire him. He could talk a good game so I like to think my input had some impact.

Of course, I didn't share everything with my buddy. I went on a work trip with the candidate and, around 11pm one night, ditched him. The next morning I learned he'd gone to the titty bar and was arrested not only for solicitation, but for possession of methamphetamine. He was fired. His prospective employer didn't know why. I didn't tell them.

I still feel like a dick but he didn't deserve that job and, as somewhere I may want to work in the future, I was not interested in burning bridges with the hiring manager by recommending someone who would inevitably be considered a bad hire.

News flash:

Interviewers lie like hell too:

Our team is like a family
We have great advancement opportunities
We invest in the tools to bring our work to the next level
I can go on and on....

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Is that legal these days?

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Depends on the State, but nearly every large business these days will have an HR department that only confirms employment for the time period asked. They don’t want to say anything else because they don’t want to open themselves up to a lawsuit.

Good on you baw. Cutco doesn't need riff raff like that.

Everyone who is freaking out op isn’t the one who is going to be in trouble, if anything it is the previous employer. You should call previous employers and learn everything you can then be respectful and never say a word about it.
When people would ask me about bad former employees I would answer positive questions for them then on negative I would say the employee x work here from date to date. That way I didn’t open my self up to defamation.

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How do you protect yourself against hiring a bad employee based on one good interview?

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One word: Temp Agency.