Category Archives: Employment Screening

Just over half of job candidates feel it is necessary to lie on a CV to get an interview due to high levels of competition.
The percentage of people lying on a CV correlated with the most competitive regions for jobs and 75% of jobseekers believed it was a company’s responsibility to uncover a lie.

The Darlington & Stockton Times reports that a carer who was struck off amid allegations of theft forged documents to allow her to continue to work.

Veronica Newton falsified a police record to get another job and kept up the charade until other clients reported things missing from their homes.

The Mirror has a story of a doctor who pretended to be a specialist in trauma, orthopaedics and surgery to win work as an expert witness in court cases.

A medical misconduct tribunal ruled that Titus Odedun had “no right to use the various titles he awarded himself” and found he did so “in order to obtain a greater volume of medico-legal work at a significantly higher fee”.

The BBC reports that a government body is investigating a website in China selling fake degree certificates from many UK universities.

Posing as a customer, reporters from BBC Radio Kent found a website offering certificates from dozens of UK institutions, including the universities of Kent and Surrey.

According to Kent Online, ‘Dr.’ Sarah Sims was exposed after applying for job at Ferndearle Child Care Services in Folkestone with list of fake qualifications.

In her job application she said her ‘line manager’ in the army was a Sgt Major Darren Pugh, but he turned out to be her 48-year-old husband.

A bent bank worker who stole a fortune from Natwest customers after taking their account details over the phone has been jailed.

Telephone advisor Matthew Parkhouse asked a string of account holders for the security digits on the backs of their cards when he didn’t need them for legitimate banking purposes.