Category Archives: Employment Screening

The HR News website reports that students are being warned of the risks of sharing selfies holding their degree certificates.

Graduates taking photos and sharing them on social media provides an opportunity for counterfeiters to copy the latest university logos, crests, signatories, stamps, holograms and wording.

Mail Online reports that Sudip Sarker – currently serving a six year sentence for fraud after he exaggerated his experience in order to dupe bosses and land a lucrative job – has been told he is to be stripped of assets to recover the cost of the salary he should never have received in the first place.

The Argus website reports that a teacher has been sacked and banned from teaching after lying about his degree on his CV.

Craig Bozic, a maths teacher for nearly a year at King’s School in Hove, said he had a 2.1 degree to get a job.

The Travel Weekly website gives details of a fraudster who lifted the career details of a sales chief, added them to his own CV and started applying for jobs in the industry.

Luke Smith was alerted by a travel industry colleague that a man calling himself ‘Hugh Harben’ was applying for roles using information taken from Smith’s own LinkedIn profile.

According to the Global Recruiter website, new research has found that recruitment fraud is costing UK organisations £23.9 billion a year.

Lying on applications, using false or fabricated documents and/or arranging false references, is allowing applicants to fraudulently secure positions as senior executives.

The Evening Standard website reports that a fraudster convinced colleagues he was a qualified barrister so he could pursue his “dream career” in law.

Scott Willey – jailed for 27 months – pretended he was a member of the Bar and worked on 18 cases before his two-year deception was uncovered.