【英国】近一半的应聘者在简历中作假

Almost half of candidateslie on their CV

A fib here, a white lie there, sometimes the linebetween truth and reality can become skewed and wavy. And for the majority oftime it's permissible. However, lying on a CV is not only unseemly, it'sillegal.

A recent report from Xref, a candidate referencingplatform, found that almost half of UK employees lied on their résumé. Thesurvey, which asked more than 1,000 18- to 39-year-olds who are currentlyemployed in the UK, found that a worrying number of applicants have fibbed ontheir CV in the last two years.

45% of candidates readily admitted to lying, with themost common embellishments being exaggerating their work experience (36%) ortheir qualifications (26%). What's even more worrying for recruiters, is that48% of those asked claimed they had exploited flaws in the reference checkingprocess, by choosing someone who would give them the best reference rather thanthe most accurate.

"As an employer, you know there's always a risk thatpeople change their work dates or their job title", said Lee-Martin Seymour,Founder and CEO of Xref. "This kind of deception tends to appear as exaggeratedqualifications or misleading professional experience. What's most worrying isthat the real figures are probably much higher as our stats only reflect thebehaviour that people were willing to admit to.

"These findings have further validated our belief ofthe real need in the UK for a better approach to recruitment that to avoidsfraud, hiring based on inaccurate data and ultimately, money wasted onunsuitable employees."

 

一个无伤大雅的小谎，一个白色的谎言，有时真相与现实之间的界线可能扭曲和波动，并且在大多数情况下这是被允许的。但是，在简历上撒谎不仅不公平，还是非法的。

应聘者履历平台Xref近期的一份报告显示，近一半的英国雇员在简历中撒谎。这项调查询问了目前在英国工作的1000名以上18到39岁的雇员，发现在过去两年间，在简历中撒过谎的求职者呈一个令人担忧的数字。

45％的应聘者很容易就承认的同时也是最常见的谎言是修饰夸大他们的工作经验（36％）或其资格（26％）。而更令招聘人员担忧的是，48％的受访者声称他们在履历检查流程中利用了漏洞，他们选择了能够给予他们最佳履历评价的人而不是最准确的那个。

Xref创始人兼首席执行官Lee-Martin Seymour表示："作为雇主，你知道人们改变简历中的任职期或职位这一风险总是存在的。这种欺骗的目的是夸大其资质或误导他人对于其专业度的认定。最令人担忧的是，真实数据可能会高得多，因为我们的统计数据只反映了人们愿意承认的行为。"

"这些调查结果进一步肯定了我们对英国招聘真正需求的认知，即采用更好的招聘方式以避免欺诈和被不准确的数据误导以致最终浪费金钱在雇佣不合适的雇员身上。"

（翻译：毛毓郁）

信息来源：

https://www.recruitmentgrapevine.com/article/news-2017-05-24-almost-half-of-candidates-lie-on-their-cv