{"id":648,"date":"2020-08-25T14:36:38","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T20:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/mdadmissions\/?p=648"},"modified":"2020-11-25T14:39:28","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T20:39:28","slug":"questions-around-verifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/mdadmissions\/2020\/08\/25\/questions-around-verifiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions around Verifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hello everyone, we hope that your applications are coming along.&nbsp; In the last week we have received a significant amount of questions pertaining to contact information for referees and verifiers of awards, work, top 10 experiences.&nbsp; I\u2019ll try to summarize our advice below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>AS PER THE APPLICATION MANUAL OUR STRONG PREFERENCE IS THAT PROFESSIONAL EMAIL ADDRESSES ARE USED.&nbsp;<\/strong>However, we understand that not everyone has a professional email linked to an academic institution or a place of business\/work.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Lack of professional email addresses may lead to&nbsp;<strong>greater scrutiny<\/strong>&nbsp;of the entire file given that there have been examples where potential applicants have fabricated email addresses.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>PLEASE REMEMBER THAT VERIFIERS ARE CONTACTED TO VERIFY NOT ONLY THE EVENT BUT THE NUMBER OF HOURS AND CONTENT RELATED TO THE ENTRY SO THEY NEED TO SPEAK TO THIS.&nbsp;<\/strong>Example: IF the experience list is Volunteered at YYY.&nbsp; I organized events and took the lead in this and developed AAA, created BBB, Coordinated CCC, led DDD the verifier needs to be able to verify this.&nbsp; If you just participated and they can\u2019t verify the file will be flagged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are specific situations and suggestions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>For awards, list either a contact person or contact person at the awards office\/granting society from which you received the award.<\/li><li>For work, please list a present or past manager preferably who worked with you,&nbsp; Not another employee.<\/li><li>For top 10 experiences, list the most relevant person to the experience that can peak to your entry.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>For personal experiences or life experiences there may be times where you may leave the verifier blank. An example may be \u201cgrowing up with a chronically ill sibling\u201d or \u201cMy mother\u2019s battle with cancer\u201d. Leaving it blank is fine but we reserve the right to come back<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>NOTE: ALL personal emails need to be accompanied by a contact number (preferably professional), if not personal.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone, we hope that your applications are coming along.&nbsp; In the last week we have received a significant amount of questions pertaining to contact information for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[98,160,140],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-application-manual","tag-questions","tag-verifiers"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Remo Panaccione","author_link":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/mdadmissions\/author\/remo-panaccione\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/mdadmissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/mdadmissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/mdadmissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/mdadmissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/mdadmissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/mdadmissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":649,"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/mdadmissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions\/649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/mdadmissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/mdadmissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/mdadmissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}