I Didn't Know This

[Clone]

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/03/27/article-1260901-08E2E805000005DC-151_468x286.jpg

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1260901/Woman-lied-CV-A-Levels-bag-NHS-job-jailed.html

 

 

[Old_Geezer]

Never really thought about it.

I was always so stupid it never occurred to me to lie. Indeed I was put off quite a few positions because of the super high bar of stated necessary abilities. Never wanted a job that stressed me out.

[Canary42]

Wow, nor did I.

Not that I ever lied on my CV, but I may have been occasionally economical with the truth at interviews 😉

[newmodarmy]

It'll be interesting to see whether this topic comes up on Question Time tonight. The BBC and other mainstream channels don't seem to have covered the Reeves Linkdin story on any of the many news broadcasts I've seen/heard this week.

[Togo]

Good job she didn't have a piece of cake. The legacy media would be going tonto. 

[Buenchico]

^^^ Not necessarily so, TTT.

I could, for example, post a c.v. on Linkedin saying that I'd got a PhD in nuclear physics and that I'm also a leading neurosurgeon..  That wouldn't, in itself, be a criminal offence.  It would only become so if my intention was to make a gain for myself, or for someone else, or "to cause loss to another or to expose another to a risk of loss". 

Simply trying to impress others with my false qualifications, rather than seeking to make a"gain or loss in money or other property", wouldn't fall foul of the provisions of Section 2 of the Fraud Act 2006.

[ToraToraTora]

It's not fraud in itself but it is fraud to try and get a job with false claims in a CV or indeed a job application form.

 

[Clone]

Looks to me like she talked the talk now she should walk.

Maybe tomorrow.

 

[pastafreak]

Oh heck...that's rather local to me. But the dates don't make sense to me...she held the position for *16 years*??? Maybe it was from 2018?

//The 29-year- old, who used the fake CV to apply for 11 other jobs, held the post of capital projects administrator in the NHS from May 2008 until last October.//

[barry1010]

A chief constable was sacked for this recently, criminal prosecution was mentioned but I haven't heard any more about it.

He was a Walter Mitty type

[Clone]

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1850756.html

[jourdain2]

I can't really believe than anyone would lie like that on his/her CVs.  Why would you?   Never lied, I assumed that they would be checked I supposed, but it genuinely never crossed my mind.

So, working on my mindset (which is probably not the average), anyone who lied should automatically not get the job and is guilty of something.

[gylly]

The article is dated 2010!!!

[Clone]

I'm well aware of that, Miss Marple, what's your point?

[Old_Geezer]

I didn't notice that pasta. Perhaps she also lied about her age ?  29 - 16 = 13. One might have thought the interviewer would get suspicious at her interview.

[THECORBYLOON]

The link in the OP is from 2010 and the woman was aged twenty-nine then, not now and she had been in her job since 2008 when she would have been about twenty-seven.

[gylly]

Other people are making comments about dates, and they might not have realised the date on the article.

[ToraToraTora]

In my game the CV is just the thing that gets you to the tech interview. That's when we find out if it's fiction.

[Old_Geezer]

Ah right. With you now.