Robyn Reis, Director of All-Star Hiring Service, discusses due diligence during hiring: background checks confirm reliability, leading to a strong, long-term team fit.
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About Robyn Reis
Robyn began her dental career in 1998 as a marketing and communications director for a large group practice, and instantly fell in love with the world of dentistry. She has spent every waking moment since learning, growing and collaborating with dentists and their teams utilizing her expertise in all aspects of dental practice management, marketing, communications, HR, continuing education, and laboratory sales. Robyn’s personal goals are to make a difference in someone’s life every single day and to give the best of herself to those around her.
Episode Transcript
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This is Dental All-Stars, where we bring you the best in dentistry on marketing, management and training.
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Hi everyone, Robyn Reis, Director of All-Stars Hiring Service with today’s hiring tip for you. It is do not skip the due diligence. This is so, so important. And in fact, we recently had several clients that had wonderful and amazing interviews and working interviews and they met the team and the charisma was there and the chemistry was there. And everybody agreed this was going to be a…
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who would fit on the team so well. And of course the qualifications were there, offer was extended, and then we did the employment verification and background check. And that’s where things took a different turn. And we discovered not just one, not two, but five different applicants with five different clients had something show up in their background. And when we…
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went to verify it with the applicant, they ghosted us. And so we’re very thankful that that happened only because we dodged a very uncomfortable and very unsettling situation. It just so happens that when we do the employment verification, we wanna make sure that the information the applicant is providing is truly what…
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what happened. Now, yes, occasionally people’s memories go back, you know, and it gets a little fuzzy when you go back to so many years. Um, and of course you want to give some latitude with, okay, was it April or was it May when I left or was it the end of 22 or the beginning of 23? I can’t really remember, but when you start to verify that information and get accuracy,
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It just reinforces that the information that the person provided is true, true and accurate. And as we’ve already spoken on many different other podcasts and webinars is almost 86% of applications have some form of falsification, misrepresentation on their application. So we wanna make sure that
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When you do find this person, you like them, you feel that they’re gonna be a good fit for your team, that you do not skip your due diligence. I promise you it’s well worth the extra time and the little bit of money that you’re going to invest for a long-term relationship. So, due diligence, don’t skip it. I’m Robin Reese, Director of All-Stars Hiring Service. I hope that you will click follow
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