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...considered unreliable workers who have to be hired under different terms. The pro-testers in France have had enough of people telling them they are only kids. They have been dependent on their parents and felt inferior for too long. They just want to be full citizens. Noélie Buisson-Descombes St. Etienne, France While you cited cultural, social and economic reasons that young, educated Italians under 40 still live with their parents, you failed to mention the outdated and inadequate teaching system. Since education doesn't focus enough on practical, market-oriented subjects, Italy's potential workforce...
...headlines haven't dented job seekers' desire to dissemble even as employers have grown increasingly able to detect deception. InfoLink Screening Services, a background-checking company, estimates that 14% of job applicants in the U.S. lie about their education on their résumés. (A common boast by guys: that they played on the college football team.) ResumeDoctor.com a résumé-writing business, found that of 1,000 résumés it vetted over six months, 43% contained one or more "significant inaccuracies...
Leery of executive Pinocchios lurking in their boardrooms, employers are stepping up efforts to spot them and weed them out. In the field of industrial and organizational psychology, figuring out why and how job applicants lie is a hot research topic, and new studies are warning companies about the dangers of employing a liar. As a result, 96% of businesses now conduct some sort of background check on job applicants, according to the Society for Human Resource Management (S.H.R.M.), a trade group. Meanwhile, the ranks of third-party screeners have exploded in the past 10 years into a $2 billion...
Employees who lie to get in the door can wreak untold havoc on a business, experts say, from tarnishing the reputation and credibility of a firm to upending co-workers and projects to igniting shareholder wrath--and that's if the lie is found out. Even when it isn't, the falsified résumé can indicate a deeply rooted inclination toward unethical behavior...
...Government official told TIME that the fired officer admitted to conversations with the press after irregularities were spotted in a lie detector test. Soon after, Goss moved quickly to fire the individual...