Ensuring you are hiring qualified research staff: Guarding against CV padding

28 August 2017

Raymond Struyk, author of Improving Think Tank Management, and Tatiana Polidi, Executive Director of the Institute for Urban Economics in Moscow, write about good practices in credential verification for think tanks based o reviewing the literature and learning from the current practices in credential verification at four well-regarded think tanks: NORC at the University of Chicago, the Urban Institute, Results for Development Institute, and the Institute for Urban Economics. The first three are in the U.S. and last in Russia.


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