Employee Credentials Checking in NIgeria

We have been in the busines of verifying the accuracy of educational credentials presented by employees. Our service is actually two pronged: firstly we verify qualifications obtained in Nigeria and secondly, we verify the credentials obtained by Nigerian employees who schooled abroad.  

Through the year 2013, we noted false declaration of credentials in about 8% of all the verifications performed. At this time, it is hard to determine the extent considering that we performed slightly more than 10,000 verifications over the last 12 months. Nigeria woke up to the news today that one of its government officials had falsely claimed to obtain a degree. Rather than go into the political details, we would want to highlight the importance of verifying candidate credentials to companies, organisations and government bodies in Nigeria.

Most Nigerian companies, atleast based on our market activities think candidate background checking are a poor use of time. We are asking them to think again. During times of economic challenge, checking the background and credentials of your potential employee becomes even more important. Background checking has become critical. We urge every company in Nigeria to check every fact of their employees - including degrees, dates of degrees, class of degree, exact dates of studies, etc.

Verifying or validating degree or certificates obtained from Nigeria costs nothing compared to loss of value or reputation from hiring a fake. ETX-NG “CertVerify” provides organisations and institutions with a simple, inexpensive and almost immediate method to verify an individual’s higher education and professional certi cation quali cations irrespective of where they were obtained. 

Recognising the value of higher education and professional certi cation and wishing to eradicate the practices of bogus degrees and bogus professional certi cation claims, ETX-NG “CertVerify” promotes the practice of verifying degree and professional certi cation claims by providing a rapid, convenient and inexpensive internet-based service for employers, higher education establishments and others to verify the degree and professional certi cation quali cation claimed by applicants for employment or a position of further study.

“It is our belief that “the things people tell you or the documentation they give you isn’t necessarily true or authentic. If you accept everything at face value, you’re not doing your job”.

Our service benefi ts potential employers and recruitment agencies by providing rapid veri cation of academic quali cations at low cost. It also bene ts universities by automating the majority of veri cation processing and greatly reducing their costs. It enhances graduate employability by recognising the value of a genuine
degree and helping to eradicate the practices of bogus degrees and bogus professional certi cation claims.

Kindly contact Oshomah Omamegbe on 0803 721 5239 for more details on how we approach degree verifications in Nigeria.

E-Transcripts for Institutions in Nigeria

ETX-NG at its core is an educational credentials company; by credentials we mean transcripts, degrees, certificates, all of the things that you earn in your life; that really speaks to what you know and how well you know it. And we’re trying to solve two basic problems with credentials….

How do we help schools, universities, polytechnics, and companies in Nigeria and others bring credentials alive, so they don’t move as paper and trapped data, but they move much more efficiently and the data can be put to work for the institution.

How do we help students and learners interact with their institutions effectively and securely; whenever they want to without having to leave their jobs or other activities in the cheapest possible means.

We are africa’s first and leading electronic transcript exchange today. We’re getting close to signing on over 10% of the tertiary institutions in Nigeria – and clearly there’s this gigantic transformation from paper to electronic.

Looking around the world, everything is turning electronic and everything that wasn’t was rapidly becoming so; but transcripts are still being held out.

Basically, students results are manually collated and typed using some word processing software, printed, put into an envelope and mailed. On the other side, the recipient receives the transcript and put them into the subjects file…the more sophisticated recipients will take them out of the envelope and scan them into a database…..this makes no sense.
Institutions should prefer to receive transcripts electronically which can be attached directly into a subjects electronic file. They no longer have to open that envelope, open a manual file, or have someone scan them into a system.

Todays students are 24x7; they are savvy…in everyway. Where they want to go for information, the type of information they want to consume; where they want to send their information, how they want to share their information,….we are giving them a way to engage with their credentials, with the way they live.

What we’ve done is…we’ve come up with a secure PDF that can't be tampered with and I would suggest that secure electronic documents are more secure that paper copies.

We are talking about education; an education system that struggles for resources, that is strapped for cash. We’re saving them money and time.

We provide the true e-transcript solution for Nigerian tertiary institutions.

The four boxes on our home page

The four boxes on our home page aren't just there for fancy; although i think they are beautiful, but they actually represent the four segments of the markets we serve. All of these drive towards our vision to become the largest transcript exchange and provider of automated certificate verification services in Nigeria and Africa as a whole. I am happy to describe these boxes in brief whilst providing you with a link to download our new brochures. As always, comments are welcome.

Box 1: Students / Alumni - Apply for Transcripts: Targeted at students who gained some form of tertiary education in Nigeria and its available to non exchange members too. This service assists students and alumni in Nigeria in obtaining their academic transcripts from any tertiary institution in Nigeria; whether electronic and physical; and having such transcripts delivered to any destination worldwide. "Download flyer - Apply for transcripts in Nigeria"

Box 2: Tertiary Institutions - Join the ETX-NG Network: Targeted at all types of tertiary institutions in Nigeria; covering universities, polytechnics and colleges of education. This service represent the core of our business. We primary help the institutions by providing a more efficient and effective way of processing transcripts across the entire value chain. We have broken down the activities into three: Transcript ordering, Transcript Generation and Transcript Delivery. Institutions that are full mebers of the network are privy to all three service activities; other could opt for each as needed. "Download brochure - Processing transcripts in Nigeria"

Box 3: Corporate Organisations - Verify Degrees: Targeted at corporate organisations across the world including companies in Nigeria who may want to verify the authenticity of the degrees claimed by thier employees. This is particularly one of my favourites because it is also extended to tertiary insitutions and professional certification bodies as well. Considering that we handle thousands of transcript records, we are efficient by filtering the meta data and recycling it for our verification business in collaboration with tertiary institutions in Nigeria and similar networks abroad. "Download brochure - Degree verification in Nigeria"

Box 4: Certification Providers - Membership verification database and ETX-NG Receive: Targeted at professional certification providers in Nigeria. This service aims to develop an online database of current certificate holders for free and provide this to corporate organisations at a fee, which we is then shared. ETX-NG Receive also ensures that the incoming transcripts of members are efficiently received and stored in secure electronic format. "Download brochure - Certification Database" and "Download brochure for ETX-NG Receive."
Kindly contact our sales team on info@etx-ng.com for further information and to receive hard copies of our brochures.