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  Majority admit to lying on their CV

  (BizWorld)
  
  As jobs become scarcer, 79pc of Irish employees have admitted lying on their CV at some point in their career.
  
  That's according to the latest survey from Peninsula Ireland, which also found that 76pc of Irish employers do not check references when recruiting a new employee and 73pc of Irish employees have admitted to exaggerating their qualifications on their CV.
  Alan Price, Head of Peninsula Ireland said, "The competition for jobs is becoming very aggressive and so people are using their CV's to exaggerate just how skilled they are to capture an interview. Irish employers need to be wary of just how truthful a CV actually is. They are being too trustworthy and should be ensuring they are properly vetting candidates. Candidates could have done anything in their previous job roles, such as stealing from a previous employer. These would not be the sort of people that employers would be looking to recruit. With Ireland's high unemployment rate, people will need to make themselves and out and it seems that lying on their CV is the way they are choosing to go about it."
  
  Mr Price continues, "Checking a reference is a quick and easy process and doesn't take up much of a potential employers time. Picking up the phone and talking to a previous employer about a possible new employee will give an insight of passed experience. Sending an e-mail can also be used to access a full written reference. Merely taking the word of a potential employee would be fool hardy and the survey reflects this opinion. Many Irish employees choose to 'talk up' their experience on a CV and in an interview, so without checking references employers may well be employing someone with no relevant experience."
  
  "Things such a lateness and consistent absences are all very costly to an employer and are all things that can be discovered by checking a reference. There is more cost involved to employers when they choose to go through disciplinary procedures with these recruits and even if employers were to highlight and eventually dismiss them, they are still left with the cost of a new recruitment drive."
  
  • 20 Jan 2009, 2:55 pm
  Helena Deane wrote: > (BizWorld) > > As jobs become scarcer, 79pc of Irish employees have admitted lying > on their CV at some point in their career. > > That's according to the latest survey from Peninsula Ireland, which > also found that 76pc of Irish employers do not check references when > recruiting a new employee and 73pc of Irish employees have admitted > to exaggerating their qualifications on their CV. > Alan Price, Head of Peninsula Ireland said, "The competition for jobs > is becoming very aggressive and so people are using their CV's to > exaggerate just how skilled they are to capture an interview. Irish > employers need to be wary of just how truthful a CV actually is. They > are being too trustworthy and should be ensuring they are properly > vetting candidates. Candidates could have done anything in their > previous job roles, such as stealing from a previous employer. These > would not be the sort of people that employers would be looking to > recruit. With Ireland's high unemployment rate, people will need to > make themselves and out and it seems that lying on their CV is the > way they are choosing to go about it." > > Mr Price continues, "Checking a reference is a quick and easy process > and doesn't take up much of a potential employers time. Picking up > the phone and talking to a previous employer about a possible new > employee will give an insight of passed experience. Sending an e-mail > can also be used to access a full written reference. Merely taking > the word of a potential employee would be fool hardy and the survey > reflects this opinion. Many Irish employees choose to 'talk up' their > experience on a CV and in an interview, so without checking > references employers may well be employing someone with no relevant > experience." > > "Things such a lateness and consistent absences are all very costly > to an employer and are all things that can be discovered by checking > a reference. There is more cost involved to employers when they > choose to go through disciplinary procedures with these recruits and > even if employers were to highlight and eventually dismiss them, they > are still left with the cost of a new recruitment drive."