Fake Resume and Recruitment

Any programmer who has searched for a job will tell you that he has written a few variations of his basic resume. Probe further and you will find that there will be more versions of his resume. In fact, fake resume is a serious malady in the software industry and as companies cut costs, and tighten their belts this problem is going to get deeper.

Infosys, recently announced that they have sacked 100 employees (this is an indicative figure). The reason ? They have submitted fake resumes. In fact, many companies have a policy of recruiting people with fake resumes on a contract basis in exchange for not pursuing their fake resume cases.

As the cost cutting efforts continue, reduction in number of permanent employees is happening and going after fake resume cases is going to increase.

See this news item Fake resumes revealed by Infosys .

Most programmers who are searching for jobs submit fake resumes and try and convince the employer that he / she is skilled in a particular tool, even though they are not. If you visit H1 B agent’s offices in USA you will find that there are many guys and gals who are returned because they do not fit the bill.

If you google ‘fake resume’, you will find a website with a url fakeresume dot com, with Sitelinks !

Earlier Satyam had truthfully stated that it was sacking 500 employees for submitting fake resumes. It is amusing and interesting to note that till now that these so called satya (truthful) companies were not discovering these fake resumes. In fact, the silent acceptance of this phenomena had encouraged youngsters to try and do everything to get a job.

The various angles to maintaining a fake resume are listed here. I would advice all programmers to detest writing a resume which is not yours. Even if you are desperate. Because keeping a fake one means hiding your real identity on the internet.

Companies have a lot to answer for what they have done regarding fake resumes.