No 100k for CV liars

13/06/2008

Lying on your CV will not be rewarded by employers, nor will it secure you a £100,000 job, recruitment professionals have warned.

Their comments followed Sir Alan Sugar's hiring of Lee McQueen in the highly successful television series, The Apprentice.

Mr McQueen was found to have lied on his CV and claimed he attended university for two years, when he dropped out after only four months.

Deborah Fernon, recruitment adviser at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, told HRZone: "There's nothing wrong with selling yourself when you're applying for a job."

"But if you lie on your CV, you need to prepare to be caught. And if you do get caught, you could get fired."

Her thoughts were echoed by Steven Kirkpatrick, a recruitment company managing director. He said: "Whilst in Mr McQueen's case Sir Alan Sugar seems to have overlooked this misdemeanour, not all employers would be so forgiving."

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