Service Guide

Education verification services

Validate education credentials, degree details, institute records, professional qualifications, and candidate-submitted academic documents.

1,654+Cities covered
83+Sectors supported
14+Check categories

Overview

Practical guidance for employer-side verification planning.

Education verification helps employers confirm whether a candidate has submitted genuine academic credentials and accurately represented qualifications.

This is important for technical, healthcare, finance, education, engineering, compliance, and senior roles where qualification accuracy affects job suitability.

Eimager can support education verification along with employment, identity, address, criminal, reference, and database checks for a complete hiring workflow.

Recommended checks

  • Education verification
  • Identity verification
  • Employment verification
  • Professional reference check
  • Global database check

When employers use this service

Common hiring situations where this check adds value.

Use Education Verification Services when a candidate will handle company systems, customer data, financial processes, field operations, warehouse access, client sites, or sensitive internal workflows.

This service is also useful for distributed hiring where candidates may work from a branch, office, factory, customer location, or remote address.

Employers can combine this check with identity, address, criminal, police, reference, UAN, CIBIL, or database checks when the role needs deeper diligence.

Pricing factors

  • Number of candidates and checks selected
  • Whether digital, document-led, field, or authority-based verification is required
  • Location complexity and address coverage
  • Candidate document completeness and quality
  • Client reporting format, evidence needs, and escalation workflow

Verification process

The workflow employers usually follow before final report delivery.

  1. 1 Submit request

    Share candidate details, selected checks, location, and policy requirements.

  2. 2 Collect consent

    Confirm candidate authorization and collect check-specific documents.

  3. 3 Run checks

    Verify records through digital, document-led, employer, institution, or field workflows.

  4. 4 Review remarks

    Check responses, exceptions, mismatches, evidence, and escalation notes.

  5. 5 Quality check

    Review report completeness and make sure selected checks are represented correctly.

  6. 6 Final report

    Receive status, remarks, and supporting details based on the verification scope.

Industry use cases

How employers commonly apply this verification service across sectors.

IT and shared services

Useful for employees who handle client systems, remote access, confidential data, software delivery, support desks, and hybrid onboarding.

BFSI and fintech

Supports hiring where candidates may handle customer information, financial workflows, collections, credit processes, or regulated client operations.

Healthcare and education

Helps validate candidate credentials, experience, address details, and role suitability for trust-sensitive service environments.

Manufacturing and logistics

Useful for plant workers, warehouse teams, field staff, delivery operations, vendor employees, facility teams, and multi-site deployments.

Documents required

  • Candidate consent
  • Degree or diploma certificate
  • Marksheets
  • Roll number or registration number
  • Institute or university name
  • Year of passing

Turnaround factors

  • Response time from employers, institutions, authorities, or local contacts
  • Correctness of candidate details and supporting documents
  • Whether the check requires field movement or local coordination
  • Number of previous employers, addresses, or qualifications to verify
  • Any mismatch, insufficiency, or clarification raised during verification

Related verification services

Combine this workflow with other checks based on role risk, location, and employer policy.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers for HR teams planning this verification workflow.

What documents are needed for education verification?

Common documents include degree or diploma certificate, marksheets, roll number, registration number, institute name, and year of passing.

Can professional certificates be verified?

Yes. Professional certificates can be included when the issuing authority and required document details are available.

Why is education verification important?

It helps employers reduce the risk of fake degrees, incorrect qualification claims, and mismatched academic records.