A growing number of fake CVs have been plaguing the IT and ITeS sector in the last couple of years. However, with a few high profile companies like Wipro and Satyam taking strict action, which made headlines and others going in for stern verification procedures, the incidence is coming down, of late.
Wipro last year had fired over 50 employees for faking their resumes and filed police complaints against several recruitment agencies for helping these employees provide false CV information. Hyderabad-based Satyam Computers terminated the services of at least 500 people in 2006 because of fudged documents. Other IT companies, which have been quietly terminating employees who were found to have fabricated their backgrounds include IBM India, Infosys and TCS.
HR professionals point out that candidates providing false information about themselves constitute around 10 percent in some companies, many others claim they have seen no such cases. While consultants feel that about 4-5 percent of the thousands of candidates who approach them to be placed have fake CVs, they add that the incidence has declined by about 15-20 percent in the last few months.
As Ajit Isaac, CEO, Adecco India, puts it, “awareness about the issue is high now, hence the barrier of candidates to put fake CVs has gone up. Also, the tolerance level for such things has gone down among companies and agencies. So, the number of incidence has gone down too.”
Nirupama VG, founder of Ad Astra Consultants, says the number is coming down with respect to the fudging of documents on educational qualifications. However, she added that the fudging has taken a new avatar. Candidates are now stating wrong experience qualifications in their resumes. “For instance, they say they worked for a certain company and it closed down. Even reference companies can’t always check up on this,’’ she explains.
Another way candidates are faking their CVs nowadays is by saying that some part of the compensation was paid out of the payroll, and then demand higher salaries from the prospective company.
-Thanuja B M
The Economic Times (Bangalore edition)
5 responses so far ↓
Freelance Recruiter // September 10, 2007 at 5:57 am |
I wrote this, first in a yahoo group, then at a HR forum, and now I am citing it here.
http://articles.recruiter.freelance.googlepages.com/identifyingfakeresumes
This contains a screening mechanism that I have tried and have found a 95% accuracy. I am trying to make it better, but candidates are just getting too smart. They learn by their mistakes, and mistakes of others, such as mine, of having posted it on the internet for everyone to access!
Anyways, it might help everyone to add in more ideas…
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Kripa // March 5, 2008 at 2:29 pm |
Hi there are lots off candidate who joined IGate from last 3-4 month they are having fake Experience in java stream .they dont even worked for java .they worked in some BPO and Consultancy etc….and they already entered in IGate Bangalore.I am just informing my company IGate HR’s .to alert now and start verifying about them who joined recently. they will find most of them are fake. this is very good company .and lots off people they are just money-hopper .just wanted to join a good company with fake exp..
Already we heard IBM,Wipro..such type of company they are firing resource’s..It’s very good work.Atleast people should aware about this
Shanthi // September 30, 2008 at 8:42 am |
Kripa, you suck big time… First improve yourself and then go complaining about others… You’re nothing but big time J of those who’ve joined igate….
catch the fake // November 10, 2008 at 3:01 pm |
hi, i know some of the resumes of fake candidates in polaris, value labs etc. i want to help my companies as well as the country from these fake candidates. if u wish i will send their id’s.