QUOTE(deodorant @ Jun 18 2008, 12:07 PM)
Aiyo don't compare Western countries to Malaysia la.
Anyway on the semi-related context of qualifications, my aunt recently fired a new hiree cos he faked his degree credentials. Thing is, her company (big MNC) HR does not have a policy to check qualifications -- it's only cos she suspected him (cos he dunno anything) that she forced HR to check.
Furthermore the company I work in (Bank MNC), I know for a fact from contacts in HR that they don't check either.
So uh ... is it standard market practice to
not check authenticity of qualifications?

That is another indirect reason as mentioned by me on regarding the brain drain. Modern HR personnel does pratice this kind of background checking. The HR ones that does not improve are the ones working for a long time and does not know this kind of pratice being done. You know what they do? They monitor your clock-in and clock-out time, keep track of your annual leaves and MC, give you warning if you are late, etc.
Jesus, those are old HR pratice already. The modern ones focuses on how to retain employees by providing better benefits, working with vendors to provide continous training for the workers to sharpen thiers skillset, fighting for better benefits suchs as higher EPF contribution, etc.
I'm not from HR and I know this kind of stuff.