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Background Checks Prevent “Misunderstandings” About College Degrees

Herbalife exec’s bio inaccurate

  1. Nutritional supplement marketer Herbalife said Gregory Probert, its president and chief operating officer, did not finish his master’s degree in business as stated in his biography.
  2. The Century City-based company said Probert was enrolled in a graduate MBA program at Cal State L.A. for 12 quarters during the 1980s but didn’t obtain a degree.
  3. Herbalife said it was reviewing the matter and would take “any appropriate action.”
  4. Probert was appointed to his position in 2003.
  5. From Times Staff and Wire Reports For the entire story go to latimes.

Corra would like to say this is the first time it has seen this situation rise up to embarrass a company. But then, like the claim of the degree itself, that would be untrue.

Many people fib about their college degrees. Some will claim graduation, a Bachelor’s or Masters’ status, while only attending for part of the time. Others will claim to be graduates and may never have gone to that school at all. And yet there are others who will true to pass off their couple hundred dollar a pop diplomas from phony universities for “life experience.”

That is why Corra offers Education verification services for just about every school in every part of this fair nation. We also offer international education verification for most countries around the world.

If you don’t think it’s wise to conduct the kind of background check that will verify either education or employment than read this article again. This could be your company. Embarrassed. Forced to face that ugly media and recant previous claims.

Check them out before you hire.

By Gordon Basichis

Gordon Basichis is the Co-Founder of Corra Group, specializing in pre-employment background checks and corporate research. He has been a marketing and media executive and has worked in the entertainment industry, the financial, health care and technology sectors. He is the author of the best selling Beautiful Bad Girl, The Vicki Morgan Story, a non-fiction novel that helped define exotic sexuality in the late twentieth century. He is the author of the Constant Travellers and has recently completed a new book, The Guys Who Spied for China, dealing with Chinese Espionage in the United States. He has been a journalist for several newspapers and is a screenwriter and producer.