The ramifications of lying on your CV

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If you are not having much luck getting job interviews, or feel that you should be earning more money than your qualifications and experience would otherwise merit, you might be tempted to upgrade your CV with a few lies and half truths.

Recent research by The Risk Advisory Group indicates that around 65 percent CVs contain some kind of lie. These range from relatively minor misdemeanours such as claiming to have been the captain of a university sports team or naming a friend as a referee to far more serious offences such as failing to mention a criminal record or inventing qualifications.

Lying on your CV might seem like a great idea in theory, but in practice it is fraught with problems. While it is not technically illegal to tell lies on your CV, if you then go on to get the job, you will be earning money under false pretences, which is an offence that you can go to prison for.

Whether you will end up in jail or not depends on a large extent to the size of the advantage you have gained by lying, the size and nature of the lie, and the type of job that you have landed with your phoney CV.

There are certain types of job where lying on your CV would be considered a more serious offence. For example, if you were to lie about your qualifications to obtain an important job with the NHS and you were caught out, you could expect to be in very serious trouble indeed, as you would have effectively defrauded the public and possibly endangered lives.

The size of the lie can also have a bearing on how much trouble you could get into. A big lie, such as falsifying qualifications or covering up a criminal record will be looked upon a lot more severely than the discovery that you did not, after all, start your universitys art appreciation society.

Although having a lie on you CV discovered by an employer is very likely to damage your chances of getting or keeping a job, a tiny minority may be willing to overlook this in favour of the big picture. Once an employer does discover something about your CV that does not stack up, it leaves you very much at their mercy, as it gives them a right to sack you at any time without severance pay or a period of notice.

Thanks mainly to the internet, it has become a whole lot easier for employers to check up on the facts you present in your CV. Several recent high profile cases of CV fraud have also encouraged employers to be more vigorous in their fact checking. This has made telling lies on your CV a lot riskier in recent years.

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This article was written by Mercy Rafla. If you are looking for jobs he recomends the Guardian Jobs website.

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