Category Archives: Employment Screening

Mail Online reports that a teacher at a top London girls school has been given a lifetime ban from the classroom after lying on his CV.

Simon Dodd told school leaders at Francis Holland School in Sloane Square that he had got a 2:1 degree, but he had actually only received a 2:2 and had faked a degree document.

Birmingham Live reports that a rogue surgeon who lied to land a £100,000 per year job has been jailed for six years.

Sudip Sarker fabricated his surgical experience to land the consultant role at Alexandra Hospital in Redditch – an appointment that led to many disastrous operations.

The Independent website reports that Henry Bolton, the leader of UKIP, has been forced to admit that he lied on his CV.

Bolton’s LinkedIn profile stated that he had received a BA from the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst but Channel 4 revealed that qualification did not exist.

The BBC reports that thousands of UK nationals have bought fake degrees from a multi-million pound “diploma mill” in Pakistan, according to a recent investigation.

Buyers include NHS consultants, nurses and a large defence contractor, with one British buyer spending almost £500,000 on bogus documents.

As reported in the Helensburgh Advertiser, a trainee accountant stole more than £38,000 from her employers in Glasgow, despite having a previous conviction for a similar offence.

Kirstie Donovan made a number of payments totalling £38,055 from the company, Fidelite Credit Management, into her own account.

As reported in The Sun, a fraudster who lied on his CV to land a £120,000-a-year job as an oil executive has been jailed.

David Scott said he had three degrees and had written an academic paper, but, in fact, he had no degree and the paper was penned by an American professor with the same name.