Category Archives: Employment Screening

An interesting discussion on the consequences of lying on a CV appeared on the Cambridge Network website.

The article says that a UK Higher Education Degree Datacheck (HEDD) survey on graduate data fraud, states that approximately 33% of graduates or job seekers falsify important information on their CVs every year.

BBC News reports that a serial conman who defrauded an energy firm of £40,000 after lying to get a job as its finance director has been jailed.

James Cox concocted a CV and references to land the role and £65,000 salary at Britain’s Energy Coast (BEC).

Mail Online carries a story of a British nurse who claimed he had worked in the fictional hospital from the TV show ‘ER’.

Amazingly, he got a job as an emergency nurse at St Mary’s Treatment Centre, Portsmouth, in 2008, after claiming to have worked at ‘County General’.

The Telegraph carried an interesting photo story that documented some of the most high-profile and successful people who have been caught lying on their CVs.

The list includes Gordon Ramsay, Jeffery Archer and a Yahoo! CEO.

The Huddersfield Daily Examiner reports that a wages clerk defrauded a Huddersfield-based plastics firm.

A court heard that Vicky Knott stole up to £120,000 from the business over three years, despite being employed to safeguard the firm’s financial interests.

BBC News reports that a convicted fraudster has admitted lying to get a job at an energy firm he then defrauded of more than £40,000.

James Cox made up references and a CV to land the £65,000 finance director role at Britain’s Energy Coast (BEC).