BENGALURU: It is a competitive world, each one of us wants to outsmart the others and get those very few jobs available in different industries. But that doesn’t imply that we are allowed to follow fraudulent means to win the job. Well, we need not put number 8 in the ‘languages known’ column. HireRight, a background check company reveals that 23 percent of background checks conducted in India from January 2014—April 2015 as reported by ET.

The study also reveals that most discrepancies are in educational, employment background, professional licenses mentioned in Curriculum Vitae (CVs). HiringRight shows that three out of ten background checks conducted include fraudulent information. While most lies were about the educational backgrounds followed by employment discrepancies.   

Interesting fact is that though there was a significant rise in hiring in India, the number of fraudulent CVs has not come down rather the numbers have sharply increased. Which implies that growing employment opportunities still keep some candidates waiting hence they take to such malpractices.

The data has made the multinationals and other companies wary about hiring candidates at senior levels. A candidate’s background is thoroughly being scrutinized by the hiring authorities as part of corporate governance. Larger companies even take the help of background check agencies before they hire a senior executive as there is a greater risk at those levels.

Besides the data mentioned above, HireRight quotes that India ranks fourth compared with the rest of Asia Pacific in the amount of discrepancies found, with Philippines having the highest at 30 percent, Malaysia at 27 percent, and Japan at 26 percent.

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