Tracking smartphone users is a billion dollar industry, and it’s not that hard to figure out where a user is working if you have their location data and a million other data points from their phone usage. That doesn’t necessarily mean that this data is easily accessible to every employer, but it’s absolutely possible to know someone’s work history with reasonable certainty without government databases.
The only way to know where you worked is really via tax documents. Unless the company has access to government databased they aren’t able to verify anything.
There isn’t really any data that can prove you worked somewhere other than tax info.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 3 days ago
traceur301@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
The data could in many cases be strong evidence someone worked somewhere, but the corollary isn’t true. A lack of data doesn’t prove someone didn’t work there, which makes this technique not very useful for some percentage of the population which makes the whole technique inconclusive
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 3 days ago
The thing is, they don’t need irrefutable evidence to toss out your resume, or at least be suspicious enough about it to ask you what you did in a given period; and if they already paid for this data, they might as well verify your answer as well.
lividweasel@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Word-of-mouth is a thing.
“Hey Sackeshi, didn’t I hear that you were working over at ABC Corp last year? I’m curious why you chose to leave that off of your resume?”