{
  "registry_version": "1.0.0",
  "data": {
    "title": "Reference & Background Verification",
    "status": "active",
    "evidence_ids": [
      "evidence.hidden_workers_untapped_talent_hbs_accenture"
    ],
    "content": "# Reference & Background Verification\n\nThird-party or internal verification of past employment records, academic degrees, and professional references.\n\n### Pass Condition\nAll mandatory background checks clear with no unresolved factual discrepancies.",
    "aliases": [
      "B-011"
    ],
    "id": "bar.reference_background_verification",
    "type": "barrier",
    "stage": "post-offer",
    "order": 13,
    "precedes": [
      "bar.offer_closing_contract_execution"
    ],
    "description": "Third-party or internal verification of past employment records, academic degrees, and professional references.",
    "pass_condition": "All mandatory background checks clear with no unresolved factual discrepancies.",
    "evidence_level": "proven",
    "specimens": [
      {
        "kind": "note",
        "label": "Verification report",
        "lines": [
          {
            "text": "Employment record 1 of 3: dates confirmed",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "text": "Employment record 2 of 3: vendor has Mar 2019–Jun 2021, application states Jan 2019–Aug 2021 — DISCREPANCY",
            "tell": true
          },
          {
            "text": "Degree: confirmed · References: 2 of 2 returned, both positive",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "text": "Offer held pending reconciliation.",
            "tell": false
          }
        ],
        "reading": "The gate checks a third-party record against a claim. A mismatch here is usually a document problem with a named remedy, not a finding about honesty."
      }
    ],
    "perspectives": [
      {
        "actor": "actor.employer_policy",
        "sees": "The list of mandatory checks, which of them cleared, and which line came back unresolved. The report arrives as a status, not as a person.",
        "reads": "An unresolved line is an open item on a record that has to be defensible: while the file disagrees with itself, the offer cannot complete.",
        "does": "Holds the offer at the gate until the record reconciles, and sets in advance which checks are mandatory and what evidence closes each one."
      },
      {
        "actor": "actor.recruiter",
        "sees": "A vendor report of cleared and uncleared lines, and an offer flagged as held. The records the vendor queried are not in the recruiter's view.",
        "reads": "A date mismatch is an item to reconcile before the start date, and the time-to-fill clock is already running against it.",
        "does": "Writes to the candidate naming the mismatch and the document that would close it, and keeps the start date provisional until it does."
      },
      {
        "actor": "actor.candidate",
        "sees": "An offer already accepted and now marked as held, plus whatever part of the finding is passed on: which record disagrees, and by how much.",
        "reads": "The offer now turns on paperwork the candidate does not hold — a former employer's payroll dates against their own memory of the same months.",
        "does": "Retrieves whatever documentation covers the disputed months, and postpones resigning or closing other processes while the hold stands."
      },
      {
        "actor": "actor.public_policy_and_industry_standards",
        "sees": "Which categories of check are run, and in which jurisdiction. Nothing about the individual file.",
        "reads": "Verification is the point where an eligibility rule — a licence, a right to work, a limit on what may be asked — becomes a pass or a fail.",
        "does": "Bounds what may be checked and what an adverse finding obliges the employer to disclose; how a vendor mismatch is reconciled within those bounds is not set here."
      }
    ]
  }
}