Finding reliable employment documents when hiring
Restaurant owners hiring their first employee struggle to find trusted and reliable employment document templates without knowing if cheap online sources are trustworthy.
What the numbers show
Counted from the threads quoted below. How we count
- People have been saying this in most months since September 2026.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
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Finding reliable employment documents when hiring
- 1Using AI models like Gemini to generate legally compliant contracts of employment for specific state lawsDid this help you?
- 2Searching the issuer's official certification verification portal by name and email.Did this help you?
- 3Asking candidates to ensure their certification privacy settings are set to public.Did this help you?
- 4Requiring candidates to link directly to their public certification profiles on their resumes.Did this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I'm trying to hire a certified Admin & Dev, and I continue to get people who put this on their resume, say they are, but cannot provide proof.”source ↗
“The emails those "passing" test results were sent to do not come up as verified on the Salesforce verification site”source ↗
“I ran both the names they gave me; I ran the email they provided. Nothing comes back. They just forwarded their test results instead, which I thought was odd.”source ↗
“We’re about to hire our first employee and need employment docs. I see templates on coffeeacademy.org for $20 but idk if I trust it. Where did you get your employment docs?”source ↗
Where this came up
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