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Fake CVs Roil the Indian Job Market
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In March 2006, some leading IT services companies in India
such as Wipro Technologies (Wipro) and IBM India dismissed several employees,
when they discovered that the information provided in the employees’ Curriculum
Vitaes (CVs) was false.
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The
companies also blamed some of the recruitment agencies which had
recruited the dismissed employees, for helping them fake their CV’s.
Police complaints were lodged against some of these recruitment
agencies, and they were even asked to refund the expenditure incurred by
the companies in hiring the dismissed employees.
These charges and
allegations highlighted the growing problem of fake CVs in the Indian
job market.
The phenomenon of fake CVs was not just restricted to the software
industry. It was also prevalent in other sectors like ITeS, financial
services, retail etc. |
It was estimated that Rs 400 crores was spent by
Indian companies for filling 200,000 jobs a year in these sectors and
10-12% of the selected candidates had submitted false information in
their CVs.
However, the extent of falsification was believed to be much
higher in the IT and ITeS sectors as they accounted for 50% of the
200,000 jobs and were highly attractive to job seekers due to their high
salary packages and other benefits.
The main areas for falsification were work experience,
expertise and skills, educational qualifications, and previous salary packages.
It was reported that in many cases the falsification of the CV’s was done with
active collaboration of recruitment agencies and at times even with the
knowledge and connivance of the company’s recruitment managers.
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