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India's Education system is rather different from here in the US. India has two different types of universities. One type is residential and offers on-campus classroom education. The other type either does not offer any classroom education or only offers Master's classes and has a number of affiliated schools & colleges. For example, all IIT's and IIM's falls under the first category, whereas the University of Delhi or University of Mumbai would fall under the second category. In the US all bachelor degrees, irrespective of major subject or discipline are known as Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Arts, but it is different in India. A bachelors degree with commerce as the major would be known as B.Com, a bachelor degree with history as major would be known as B.A. and a bachelor degree with physics as major would be known as B.Sc. The same criteria apply to Master degrees.

Social Security Numbers issued in the US have no relevance in India. A date of birth is helpful to identify a candidate but records are not usually maintained by date of birth. Records are often identified using the student's father's name in the case of an unmarried male or female student, and the husband's name in the case of married females.

Computerization of records is in progress in all educational institutions/schools in India. However, except for the IIT's, IIM's and newly established educational institutions, most of the schools are dependent on old non-computerized records. These are in paper form and are highly voluminous. It can take a long time for schools to dig out old volumes.

To get verifications processed from an IIT or IIM,  if we give them name of candidate, year of graduation and name of degree earned, it may suffice but to get faster response from most of the educational institutions in India, we suggest for following input information:

1) Name of applicant during attendance at University/School

2) Name & at least location of school attended

3) Dates attended or date of graduation

4) Exact name of degree earned like B.A./B.Com/B.Sc/B.E.

5) Roll Number/Registration Number/Hall Ticket Number

6) A copy of diploma certificate

7) Copy of release or authorization

For past employment verification, we are dependent on HR Managers/Personnel Managers/Administrative Officers/HR Executives and so on. More and more employers are in the process of computerization of Rolls but for records older than a year or two most employers are dependent on records in paper form. If the former employer is a Government owned organization, it takes longer to get approvals for release of information. There are many employers having their Head Office at New Delhi or Mumbai but factory at a remote village in Tamilnadu or Karnataka. It is important to have the correct location rather address of the former employer. It is also important to have the correct & exact position held with a particular employer. We have found that quite a few applicants change their position on application as per US terms. It may be noted that most of IT companies prefers not to disclose the salary structures. It is also not uncommon to found that a number of IT firms went out of business.      

Based on our experience, we suggest following input information for faster employment verification:

a) Name and address of past employer

b) Dates of employment

c) Position held

d) Name of supervisor

e) Employee Number

f) Copy of release or authorization