Bipin Shah   Self Employed
If you thought that only some pilots fake their resumes, get your facts right. With the world getting competitive day by day, many people fake their resume to take a shortcut in their ladder of success in the corporate world. When you see your peers getting higher salaries and better compensation packages, you may be tempted to put some exaggerated details of your employment history to get a better deal from the company offering you the job.


Ronesh Puri, Managing Director of Executive Access, a head-hunting firm, believes that over 25 per cent of the applicants and existing employees in various companies fake their employment and education-related information. Be careful. You may assume that there is no way that the company you have applied would get to know of the fake details you have mentioned in your resume. However, you may be in for a rude shock as more and more companies are hiring background screening agencies to conduct a background check on your past including your professional experience and education.


Background Screening Trends-India Report by First Advantage, a global risk mitigation and business solutions provider, threw some interesting facts about the discrepancies found while conducting background checks between October and December 2010.
Experts believe that faking education-related documents, salary slips from previous job and even certificates of appreciation is not uncommon. Since the background screening is still in its nascent stages in India, lot of people manage to get away with it.
Mar 22nd 2011 08:33