How to identify fake candidates while screening?

IT Industry has thousands of fake folks out there, its all about how smart is the fake candidate. If he or she is too smart, then he can bypass any strategy of yours or AI.

But here are a few tips around how to minimise fake candidates

• There are a list of companies which provide fake certificates. Many large organisations have this list and this helps them spot fake folks.
• If you look at their projects it will be very similar or very small scale (school/college or some basic projects)
• Ask open ended questions to the candidates, this is the best way to spot fake ones. Here are some samples of open ended questions
  • You have mentioned using spring, what was your contribution using spring in your current project?
  • Can you explain me about the project and what was the use case of the project?
  • How big was the team involved in this project, was every team member was based out of India or there is someone in client location?
  • Ask for colleague or manager reference(name) for BGV, say you wont contact them until you are offered. But we take these details during the initial round itself.

Asking such open ended questions which can be only answered by people who have been physically part of the project, this helps in weeding out lot of fake candidates as they would stammer or wont have a proper answer.

Hope this helps