The New Age reports that thousands of job seekers continue to lie their way into potential employment through fraudulent CVs and fake qualifications.  A local background screening company bust 66,700 resumés that contained fudged information between January and October.  

Desperate candidates are resorting to fraudulent activities including forging qualifications, faking experience and inventing companies in order to land jobs in a tough local employment market.  Managed Integrity Evaluation (MIE) spokesperson Jennifer Barkhuizen said candidates’ educational history had been identified as the most likely to contain discrepancies when compared to all other background screening checks.

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