February 2009

 

BackCheck announces numbers of job-hunters that lie, cheat and steal to get jobs.

 

BackCheck, the UK’s largest background checking operations team, runs hundreds of thousands of pre-employment screenings each year, and has just released its latest internal research statistics; it’s official, job-hunters lie, cheat and steal to get jobs, and never more so than in times of recession.

 

Inaccuracies in CVs were found in all areas of background checking from criminal to education fabrications:

 

5% of people lied about their criminal history 15% lied about their identity 30% lied about their employment history 10% lied about their education 25% lied about ther reference interviews 24% lied about their credit history

 

This is typical; it is estimated that over 1% of the entire british workforce is nore that they say they are. BackCheck has seen the numbers of employers prosecuted for employing illegal workers soar in the first half of last year to more than double f the previous 10 years.

 

Chris Hawkins, assistant vice president of operations, warns: ‘The threats of not knowing who you are employing are huge, from being prosecuted and facing jail for employing illegal workers to putting your clients, other staff and business at risk by employing someone who has lied about their educational employment and criminal history.’

 

‘Our own research shows that a high percentage of prospective employees are prepared to lie to get a job and the only way an employer can be sure they’re employing who they think they are is to run a check.’