Education Verification.

Want to know if your candidate actually earned that degree, or if they just liked the sound of it on a resume? Education verification cuts through the creative credential building to confirm what's real - directly with the institution that would know.

CIChecked contacts the educational institution directly to confirm your candidate's degree, diploma, or certification, including dates of attendance, field of study, and graduation status. No third-party guesswork, no candidate-provided documents taken at face value - verification straight from the registrar's office.

What Education Verification Searches Provide

Education verification isn't just about confirming degrees - it's your reality check on the most commonly fabricated information in hiring. Through direct verification with institutions, school accreditation checks, and education equivalency assessments for international credentials, we deliver the truth behind those impressive educational claims. Think of it as fact-checking, but with actual consequences for lying.

• Degree Verification: Verifies that the credential your candidate claims was actually awarded, because "some coursework" and "Bachelor of Science" are not the same thing, no matter how creatively the resume is written.
• Dates of Attendance: Confirms when your candidate was actually enrolled, catching inflated timelines and fabricated attendance periods.
• Field of Study Verification: Confirms the actual major, concentration, or program completed - not the version the candidate decided sounds more impressive for this particular job.
• Graduation Status: Confirms whether your candidate actually completed the program and graduated, or whether "attended" is doing a lot of heavy lifting on their resume.

Education is the most misrepresented information on resumes, with phantom degrees and fabricated certifications becoming epidemic. One unqualified hire in a technical role can trigger compliance failures, project disasters, and the kind of professional liability that makes insurance companies nervous. CIChecked's verification processes access databases and institutional records that aren't available to casual inquiries.

Highest Completed Credential

CIChecked's standard education verification covers the candidate's highest completed credential. This targeted approach confirms the most relevant and most commonly embellished educational claim on the resume - the one that typically matters most for role qualification.

Why Education Verification Is Non-Negotiable

Resume embellishment around education is one of the most common forms of candidate fraud. Fabricated degrees, inflated credentials, and phantom certifications show up across every industry and every experience level. A candidate who claims an MBA they never earned isn't just padding a resume - they're misrepresenting a qualification that may have been central to your hiring decision.

For roles that require specific educational qualifications - healthcare, finance, engineering, education, compliance - unverified credentials don't just create hiring risk. They create regulatory exposure, liability, and the kind of downstream consequences that make one unverified degree very expensive.

Bottom Line: Education credentials are requirements, not suggestions - and they deserve verification at the source. CIChecked contacts institutions directly to confirm degrees, dates, fields of study, and graduation status, catching the most common form of resume fraud before it becomes your organization's problem.