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发帖数: 18403 | 1 Bangalore: Every day the Indian IT industry wakes up with new challenges
which could be from hiring skilled professionals to cost cutting during
recession. Fake resumes are one of them. Since this is the first step in
hiring, it makes it all the more difficult for companies to pick the right
candidate. Despite having large HR departments, many IT companies have
failed in identifying fake resumes. According to Employee verifications
firms, recruitment companies and HR heads in the IT sector feel the number
of fake resumes floating around have increased fourfold since 2007. Fake
resumes have transformed and turned out to be a fine art nowadays. Most IT
companies revealed that professionals from Hyderabad faked the most in their
resumes.
MindTree terminated 80 employees out of 1000 recruited after it found they
had filed false information, according to Subroto Bagchi, Chief Operating
Officer, "MindTree is closely monitoring the resumes coming especially from
Andhra Pradesh aspirants who provide false information to get a job owing to
social pressures," he added.
The fakery included falsification of resumes, Most of them provided false
employment information, incorrect tenure, gave away fake designations and
some had also had negative supervisor or HR feedback. Manipulated
educational information which had degrees from either unrecognized
institutes or fake institutes and some had not completed the courses that
they had claimed to have done.
Not only the IT sectors the, banking and financial services industry (BFSI)
has also received the fake resume menace with major chunk coming from
Hyderabad. Hyderabad emerged as one of the top cities with highest number of
suspect companies that issued fake resumes.
Noby Nazareth, head of employee verification firm, Evaluationz, said that 25
percent of the resumes that reach him are found to be false or fabricated
or exaggerated. This is largely because some candidates have become much "
smarter" in faking it and there are some recruitment agencies are even
helping them do it. According to Nazareth, a lot of fake resumes involve
candidates from Hyderabad.
"Most of these companies who provide fake experience certificates, salary
slips and even fake educational certificates are located in Hyderabad, while
there are quite a few of them in Bangalore and many other cities as well,"
said Deepankar Sanwalkar who heads the Forensic Dept of KPMG.
Considering the above facts if we analyze why Hyderabad is leading in fake
resumes, we have their state government recently admitting that not more
than 10 percent of their engineering graduates are actually employable. Only
12 percent engineering students from Andhra Pradesh were selected in campus
recruitment in the previous academic year and the figure declined further
in the current year, a recent study by National Association of Software and
Services Companies (Nasscom) has shown.
Small or big, all IT companies have faced and continue to face the scourge.
Wipro, Infosys, TCS and Cognizant and others say they have taken corrective
measures to stop the fakes from getting hired.
It is not only the fake resumes which has brought Hyderabad into the
spotlight, during the Tri-valley university, the city drew a lot of
attention as the scam claimed that as many as 1,555 students, mostly from
Andhra Pradesh enrolled at the Pleasanton School were using fake visas. In a
complaint filed Jan 19 in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, the U.S.
Attorney's Office alleges that the owner of Tri Valley University used the
school to help foreigners illegally obtain student visas that allow them to
stay in the U.S. |
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