Background-checking firm Powerchex has claimed the number of applicants lying on their applications has been increasing since the summer of 2007 when the financial crisis began.
(meta data) TITLE: Under-21s told 29% more lies on job applications this year than last | Education | The Guardian (meta data) AUTHOR: http://www.theguardian.com/profile/jessicashepherd (meta data) PUBLISHER: https://www.facebook.com/theguardian (meta data) PUBLISHED DATETIME: 2009-08-06T10:47:58-0400 8 captures 06 Mar 2016 - 26 Jul 2020 About this capture COLLECTED BY Collection: Wikipedia Outlinks March 2016 Crawl of outlinks from wikipedia.org started March, 2016. These files are currently not publicly accessible. Properties of this collection. It has been several years since the last time we did this. For this collection, several things were done: 1. Turned off duplicate detection. This collection will be complete, as there is a good chance we will share the data, and sharing data with pointers to random other collections, is a complex problem. 2. For the first time, did all the different wikis. The original runs were just against the enwiki. This one, the seed list was built from all 865 collections. The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20160306075821/http://www.theguardian.com/education/2009/aug/06/young-unemployed-lies-job-applications Skip to main content sign in Saved for later Comment activity Edit profile Email preferences Change password Sign out US edition The Guardian election 2016 browse all sections # Under-21s told 29% more lies on job applications this year than last Jessica Shepherd Thursday 6 August 2009 10.47 EDT Last modified on Friday 8 January 2016 23.41 EST This article is 6 years old More under-21-year-olds in the UK are lying on their CVs this year compared with last, a poll has found. Of 4,735 job applications from all age groups sent to finance firms between June last year and this May, 899contained false information. Powerchex, a company which screens CVs and application forms on behalf of finance companies, found that of the 307 belonging to under-21s, 18% contained lies, an increase of 29% from last year, when only 14% of forms contained false information. Under-21s are now the most likely to lie on job forms, the company says. Their most common lie was to claim a 2:1 university degree when they had been awarded a 2:2. Others exaggerated menial jobs to make themselves sound more important. Another common lie was to claim they had left a job because their contract had expired rather than because they had been made to leave. This year's final-year university students face the highest levels of graduate unemployment in a generation. Alexandra Kelly, managing director of Powerchex, said: "The pressure of the recession on job markets seems to have led more applicants to believe that they should lie or make embellished claims to get jobs." More news ## Topics Higher education Graduate careers Unemployment and employment statistics Reuse this content
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 • Criminal records checks: Protection of Freedoms Act 2012, Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975
 • Ability to work in the UK: Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 
 • The Equality Act 2010
 • Data Protection Act 1998 
 • Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (and Human Rights Act 1998)
 Since the onset of the financial crisis of 2007–2010, the level of fraud has almost doubled and some experts have predicted that it will escalate further.