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These young people who falsify their CVs to get a job

2022-09-23T04:21:22.807Z


TESTIMONIALS - Diplomas, experiences, activities... some candidates do not hesitate to lie on their CV, even if it means inventing another life. To combat this phenomenon, several companies are sifting through information.


"

On my CV, I invented that I accompanied my father to the markets to sell fruit and vegetables

", indicates Marie*, 22 years old.

Problem, the student has never been a saleswoman, her father is retired and he has never worked among the stalls.

Thanks to this lie, Marie landed a job as a receptionist in a theater in 2019. “

Without this deception, I would never have had this job because I only had experience as a temporary maintenance worker

” , she adds.

André, 23, had no experience in catering.

When he applied to become a waiter in England five years ago, he wrote on his CV "

good gastronomic restaurants, quite famous in Switzerland

".

During the interview, André succeeds in lying brilliantly and manages to get the job.

I didn't have much to lose

,” he adds.

Same opinion for Nordryne, 20 years old: “

I prefer that an employer discovers my lie and does not take me, rather than to miss my chance

”.

This student...

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Source: lefigaro

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