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nsande
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Women lie more than men

May 22nd, 2004, 9:31 am

A recent investigation into the truthfulness of CV's indicate that most people lie but the worst offenders are women. CV liesA question to those of you that do hiring, do you you check the CV's of the people you employ or can you get away with anything?Regards,Niclas
 
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DominicConnor
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Women lie more than men

May 24th, 2004, 7:36 am

A friend of mine runs the background checking for a large organisation.She reckons that 25% of all CVs contain what she eloquently calls "material defects". This is even after people are told that they are going to be checked out.A good chunk of these are from hand filled out application forms. I note the study has older people being worst. This is consistent with the observation that people forget whole years of their lives. Ask a 38 year old what they were doing in 1993, see how far you get.You have an interesting dilemma here. Does an absence of issues in someone's background indicate that they are clean, or that your checks have failed ?If you do your job properly, (costs about 25K), everyone has some issue.