A tricky yet uncommon trend that has recently crept up in these times of economical turmoil is the falsification of certain information and data that appears in potential job seekers’ resumes. Some employ this form of deception in various degrees and styles. However, the end point of this is that information is unjustly stated that is aimed to position the aspiring employee far ahead of his fellow applicants. This should be acted upon and dealt with accordingly and likewise not condoned.
But to get to that, one must be able to spot and make certain that the information in question is indeed falsified. In doing so, the best way to start is by analyzing which parts of the curriculum vitae is prone to this thievery and what part can be replaced with lies and hence, what lies these take form in.
Basic Credentials. This is the part that includes one’s name, birth date and place, address, and contact information. Normally this part is unlikely to face any form of tweaking, since this is basically THE person. However, there are cases that this IS the only part that is changed to better suit a job. An example is when there is a certain age required for particular employment, the birth date is changed and likewise, the follow-up papers are also falsified. Another is the birthplace, some jobs require a person’s nationality to be considered, and that is also acted upon by the conniving applicant in the same fashion. Even the name at times is also not spared from this erroneous activity, this is when a person is either black-listed or is avoiding credit checks. The best solution for these types of falsifications is to ask the person to provide legitimate and notarized identification.
Education. Yet another part of the resume that sees little action when it comes to falsifying facts. The only instances when this field is changed are when a person is seen as unqualified for a job because of lack of specialization or discrimination of his/her educational attainment. A common practice is to state post-collegiate special trainings and/or educational merit from his/her school or college. Another one is when a person did not really finish his education and claims to have done so. Furthermore, there are also incidents when a person states a completely different academic institution where he/she has supposedly studies. Again, to address this, the best way is to ask for sufficient academic proofs (i.e. diplomas, certificates, old school identifications and recommendations from known educators from the stated academy).
Working Experience. This part is the most prone to falsification. There are times when people overstate their qualification from a former employer, or totally alter their job descriptions to better suit what is being looked for by the candidate employer. The best and most sure-fire way to alleviate and address this problem is to contact all the stated companies and ask for a background check, or at the very least, an endorsement from them regarding the applicant.
Other forms of falsification of data on resumes are out there, and so far the only way to be able to clearly address this is by getting information confirmed by anything or anyone that is mentioned on his/her resume that the employer finds alarmingly unsound.
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