Candidates lie on their CVs
It’s about time that candidates realised that prospective employers will check the veracity of their CVs. Yet, according to background screening company PeopleChecking, part of NorthgateArinso candidates lie most often about degree-level educational qualifications.
This says a lot about the candidates because if they had any brains they would realise that it is the easiest qualification to check and, because it is the most recent qualification, the one that any employer worth working for will check.
The research, sample size undisclosed, shows that 78% of those who had experienced candidates lying on CVs said they had seen grade inflation at degree level, while 39% had witnessed candidates lying about A-level or equivalent and GCSE level qualifications respectively.
More than half (55%) of respondents who had experienced misrepresentation on CVs reported that candidates had claimed a degree, 45% extra ‘A’ levels or equivalent and 50% extra GCSEs or equivalent.