Fake reasons for leaving jobs, manipulated dates and inflated titles among most frequent falsehoods
In 28 years of recruitment, Matt Collingwood has witnessed some “very awkward” job interviews. Like the candidate whose CV falsely boasted of a second-dan black belt in taekwondo, only to discover his interviewer was an aficionado of the sport. “An interview that should have been an hour lasted 15 minutes,” said Collingwood, the managing director of the IT recruitment agency Viqu.
Or the candidate who claimed he had attended a certain private school, which his interviewer had also attended and would have been in the year above. But when asked for teachers’ names, the school motto, even where the sports field was, “he was clueless. Didn’t get the job.”
CV falsification, even on seemingly trivial points, can have serious consequences, yet Collingwood said it was “ridiculously common”.
Recruitment fraud is another term for it. According to the UK fraud prevention service Cifas, it is one of the most frequent “first-party frauds”, when an individual knowingly misrepresents their identity or provides false information for financial or material gain.
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