Job seekers who lie on their CVs risk getting a criminal record, say fraud experts. One person in every five has lied about a qualification on their CV in the past year — or knows someone who has, according to a fraud prevention service.
The figure — 19 per cent — is slightly up from 17 per cent who confirmed this in a similar survey last year, Cifas said. Within the latest total, more than a third (38 per cent) of 16 to 24-year-olds had lied on their CV or knew someone who had, along with three in 10 (30 per cent) 35 to 44-year-olds.
The research also revealed that two in five people who suspected a colleague of CV fraud would not report it to their HR department, even if they could do so anonymously. This was an increase on 2021 when a third of people said the same.
