AT THE EMPLOYERS’ GATES: THE EUROPEAN CHALLENGE FACING ASYLUM SEEKERS AS EMPLOYMENT APPLICANTS

The flood of asylum seekers in Europe in the past few years brings about a challenge to employers in accepting them to work. Offering a potential solution to the selection process targeted at helping employers in Europe sort asylum seeker job applicants who lack sufficient documentation, by using tools from the security world. Using these tools helps employers verify biographical and other data candidates provide in documents and declarations during their recruitment process. Briefly reviewing the phenomenon of asylum seekers in Europe, in order to explain the phenomenon of CV fraud and offering verification tools from the security world that were developed in an attempt to respond to this widespread phenomenon. Examine tools that are used worldwide and propose one tool that is suitable to help selecting candidates that lack sufficient documentation such as asylum seekers.