Category Archives: Employment Screening

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).

The Surrey Comet reports that a former solicitor pretended to be an HMRC officer in order to gain information about the disciplinary investigation that struck him off.

Paul Baxendale-Walker of Hersham was struck off as a solicitor at a tribunal hearing in 2007 and then used a false name to write to the Law Society on what appeared to be HMRC-headed paper.

According to the HR Director website, a growing number of job seekers are including false or inaccurate information on their CVs: a recent analysis of 5,500 CVs found that 70 per cent contained inaccuracies, with 25- to 32-year-olds emerging as the worst offenders.

The Birmingham Mail reports that a police community support officer was sacked after admitting to faking her job application CV.

Samantha Skinner changed her NVQ qualification to a higher grade – from level 1 to level 3 – whilst applying to join the regular police force.