Category Archives: Employment Screening

The Wiltshire Times carries the story of a man who has been jailed for two years after lying on his CV about his history of sex offending.

David Seaman’s bosses and colleagues at the engineering firm where he worked only learned of his seedy past when he was arrested for a third set of sex offences.

The Law Society Gazette reports that a City solicitor who lied on his CV about qualifications and admittance to professional bodies has agreed to leave the profession.

Michael McCooe claimed he had qualifications from the University of Zurich and Trinity College, Dublin, but it transpired that this was a false declaration on both counts.

An article on the People Management website states that businesses in the private sector are collectively losing £12bn each year through payroll fraud.

The Annual Fraud Indicator 2016 report found that the biggest source of loss related to procurement – causing annual losses of £127bn.

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’.