Nearly 15 percent are prepared to break the rules in their quest to squeeze out other candidates.
By Garry Kranz Comments 0 | Recommend 0
Their Cheatin’ Hearts: What ever happened to standards and fair play? According
to a recent survey, about 15 percent of job applicants readily would cheat to
gain an “unfair advantage” by fudging information on their résumés, according to
HR consulting firm Cubiks. About 13 percent would be prepared to cheat using a
company-provided application form, “11 percent via an unsupervised ability test
and 10 percent via an unsupervised personality/competency questionnaire,”
according to the survey of 500 students. Asked why they felt it necessary to
cheat, many students responded that they “would be good at the job if only they
could get through the selection process.”
Workforce Management contributing editor Garry Kranz is based in Richmond, Virginia. E-mail editors@workforce.com to comment.
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