Lies on your CV can affect your employment rights
25th Feb 2009
A leading recruitment industry body has warned employees making false claims on their CV could lose their employment rights
Making false claims on your CV can later affect your employment rights, the Recruitment Society has warned. The group's chairman Steve Huxham has noted there may be serious consequences if after taking a job you are found to have misled your employer.
Regardless how serious it is and how seriously the company views it, you will have misrepresented yourself "whether it's a degree qualification, whether it's the depth of expertise you've got, dates of employment, whatever it happens to be", he noted.
Mr Huxham warned that an employee in this situation may lose their usual employment rights if the firm decides to fire them. "The biggest danger is that, if you lie on your CV and you get the job, it's potentially a smoking gun on the personnel file for as long as you work with that company," he added.
According to the CV Survey published by the Chartered Institute of Educational Advisors, only 1.8 per cent of respondents admitted they has lied on their CV, although 22.8 per cent said they had 'embellished' when writing the document. click here for the latest employment opportunities
