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August 08, 2005
Claim: a quarter of CVs are misleading
According to a report from the Risk Advisory group, a quarter of CVs submitted to finance firms contain incorrect or false information.
The report, which was based on a study of 3,000 CVs, identified false information about academic qualifications, previous jobs, gaps in employment and directorships. It found that incorrect CVs had an average of three pieces of misleading information on them.
"These results are a warning to employers of taking too much at face value when hiring people," said Richard Prior, the deputy director of the Risk Advisory Group. "Clearly any candidate could make a mistake when preparing a CV, but three mistakes are unlikely and effectively mean that these CVs are bogus."
The report supports a study by The Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD), which found that 50% of UK firms rarely or never checked the academic qualifications of prospective employees. However, a quarter of recruiters withdrew job offers after finding false information on a CV and 23% fired a member of staff they later found had lied in order to secure a job.
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