Lying on your C.V.

Never lied, especially when it comes to qualifications. But there is no need to put grades down if you have professional expeience and they were nt something to write home about (A. etc)

It's all about how you write about your skills, experiences and successes. Sometimes you won't even realise your worth until the CV is writen and you attribute some savings and success to you work.

As an example I put down future savings for a project I essentially project managed as £2million whilst halving the time to complete the works. Why? Because without me undertaking this project (even though I was a graduate :p) it would certainly not be where it is now, which is under 6 months away from being rolled out. Plus the client asked about 6 months ago if they could immediately have the product to use elsewhere, savings I could not even consider calculating at the time.
 
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Qualifications, no never they can check them or ask for certification at anytime should doubts arise.

Anything else is free game id think as long as you are an incredible liar/actor you could take it as far as you wanted, all be it a bit odd.
 
I'd only lie on my CV if I was in desperate need of a job, and by lie I'd mean I'd remove stuff from my CV to make myself appear more suited for the role rather than over qualified and liable not to be there long if I get the job. That would be for jobs below what I currently do, I.e. If I was desperate for work and would take anything, if I was looking for jobs similar to my current one I'd keep my cv intact, I'd never add anything to it that wasn't true.
 
I've put I played rugby and enjoy jogging regularly.. Regularly meaning annually.
But it used to be true when I first wrote it xD
 
I've never lied about qualifications or positions I've held, I have put more emphasis on responsibilities/tasks I've had than maybe they merited but that's been on the advice of recruitment "consultants" who are placing me for the job, and I've never included something I haven't done at all.
 
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It doesn't say what she was actually charged with though, I was just thinking aloud as to what the offence might fall under.

I think the seriousness of the crime would be looked at with respect to any public prosecution of someone in such circumstances - if you had put public safety at risk by lying about qualifications on your CV (e.g. professional qualifications - like saying you're a qualified doctor or nurse, when you're not) then this would be more likely than saying that you got a B on your A-levels instead of a C.
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It does say

Mackay, of Plymouth, admitted forgery and fraud and asked for 11 similar offences to be considered.

So I would guess at Forgery and Fraud as the offences.
 
Afaik I know you are allowed to not declare a criminal record on a CV. However if you are asked if you have one, whether this be verbally or on paper, you must inform them correctly.
 
If you lie

1) If you are there for 25 years and they want to get rid of you, they can check your CV information and sack you for lying with paying you £0.00 redundancy, 0 days notice. Costing you tens of thousands of pounds ..

2) They can actually sue you for your wages back if you get there and are ineffectual at the job and it is proved you lied.
 
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If you lie

1) If you are there for 25 years and they want to get rid of you, they can check your CV information and sack you for lying!! Then get away with paying you £0.00 redundancy, 0 days notice. Effectively costing you tens of thousands of pounds ..

2) They can actually sue you for your wages back if you get there and are ineffectual at the job and it is proved you lied.
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on a serious note i've never been asked to produce qualifications. if you write your CV well enough your qualifications are pretty redundant against your experience and skill set.

there is always a bit of cvreative writing it's kind of expected, but remember don't mug yourself off by taking your employer for a mug, insulting their intelligence is not a bright idea.

Depends what job you are going for with who.

for example it's against the law to claim you are a biomedical scientist without a BMS degree, and could land you in prison or fined. same would go for Doctors and Lawyers for obvious reasons.

but for a job ina call center they may not care.
 
If they find out they are within their rights to fire him, not sure of the legal implications though. I do tell a teenie-tiny lie on mine and say I was Mr. Universe '98, though nobody has flagged me on it yet.
 
oh dear..

your friend is NOT GOING TO GO TO JAIL because he lied on his CV for a grad job..what's wrong with all the people saying so?

If he is certain he wouldn't get in any other way then he's got nothing to lose. Some lie and are never found out, some are and get the boot. If he has lied and they find out and they care enough to take action against him then he will lose the job and may have trouble getting another at banking in the immediate future.

It doesn't seem like he had other options if banking is what he really wanted to do anyway. Good luck to him because, seriously, A levels are not that important when you already have a good degree and go through several rounds of interviews.
 
nas said:
...a friend of mine recently did, he's got a business management degree and but didnt do too well in his alevels, he was offered the job too (its in banking, which required a minimum number of ucas points). He told me in the event of them asking about he he'd say that, if he hadn't then he wouldn't have even been considered (which is true) and that getting through the whole interview process proves he's fit for the job.

So, if you was in the same situation would you do the same? Have you done it before?

/discuss.
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OP is unclear as to what lie has been told and to whom.

More details are required.
 
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