首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
As college seniors hurtle into the job hunt, little fibs on the resume--for example, claiming s degree when they’re three credit
As college seniors hurtle into the job hunt, little fibs on the resume--for example, claiming s degree when they’re three credit
admin
2010-07-19
37
问题
As college seniors hurtle into the job hunt, little fibs on the resume--for example, claiming s degree when they’re three credits shy of graduation--seem harmless enough. So new grads ought to read this memo now: those 20-year-old falsehoods on cream-colored, 32-1b. premium paper have poleaxed so many high-profile executives that you wonder who in the business world hasn’t got the message. A resume listing two fictitious degrees led to the resignation of David Edmondson, CEO of RadioShack. Untruthful curricula vitae have also hobbled the careers of executives at Bausch & Lomb, Veritas Software and the U. S. Olympic Committee.
The 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 resumes. (A common boast by guys: that they played on the college football team. ) ResumeDoctor, com, a resume-writing business, found that of 1,000 resumes 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 industry.
Psychologists call lying a form of impression management--an extension of the common human impulse to look better in someone else’s eyes. "It’s a way to resolve the discrepancy between the average applicant you think you are and the ideal applicant you think they seek," says Roland Kidwell, associate professor at the University of Wyoming’s College of Business, who has researched resume padding. Lies about education are perhaps prevalent because only 35% of employers say they "always" verify degrees conferred, says S. H. R. M..
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 resume can indicate a deeply rooted inclination toward unethical behavior.
"There’s a lot of evidence that those who cheat on job applications also cheat in School and in life," says Richard Griffith, director of the industrial and organizational psychology program at the Florida Institute of Technology and author of a forthcoming book on job-applicant faking. "If someone says they have a degree and they don’t, I’d have little faith that person would tell the truth when it came to financial statements and so on."
Employers’ fears have sparked a boom in the background-screening industry. About 700 firms exist now, compared to only a handful 10 years ago. Analysts say revenues for the industry are growing 7% to 10% a year. Though exhaustive checks on CEO-level individuals can cost $10,000 or more, some companies offer basic vetting for as little as $10. Hire Right of Irvine, Calif. , screens 1 million resumes a year and says business has grown tenfold over the past five years: employers have grown so watchful, says David Nachman, the company’s head of marketing and business development, that they now cheek the resumes of temporary staff and local hires in their offices overseas.
But guarding the henhouse does little good if the fox is already nestled inside. To unmask the deceivers among them, some employers are conducting checks upon promotion. Verified Person markets its ability to provide ongoing employee screening through automated criminal checks. With this increased vigilance comes a thorny new dilemma: figuring out whether every fib is really a fireable offense. Many bosses feel that a worker’s track record on the job speaks more strongly than a stretched resume, says John Challenger of the outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Rather than booting talented workers, Challenger suggests, employers should offer an amnesty period. "A moratorium would let anyone who needs to come clean," he says. And the culprit could always go back to school and finish that degree-maybe even on company time.
All of the following can be inferred from the first paragraph EXCEPT ___________.
选项
A、one’s dishonest acts might be punished someday.
B、many graduates tell trivial lies when preparing their resumes.
C、some untruthful resumes have enabled new grads to hunt jobs.
D、high-profile executives are able to identify the truthfulness of a resume.
答案
D
解析
推断题。由题干直接定位至首段。第二句提到“那些20岁的造假者打败了那么多职位很高的经理们”,显然经理们并不能够完全辨明简历内容的真伪,[C]符合文意,而[D]不符合文意,故为答案。该句后面的you wonder who in the business world hasn’t got the message说明造假现象非常普遍,[B]符合文意。第三句和第四句举出两个因简历造假而影响前途的例子,由此可推出[A]。
转载请注明原文地址:https://jikaoti.com/ti/O23YFFFM
0
专业英语八级
相关试题推荐
Thewritersuggeststhatthereisnosenseinbuyingthelatestvolume______.Theauthorquotedafewentriesinthelastpara
Thewritersuggeststhatthereisnosenseinbuyingthelatestvolume______.CrippenwasabsentfromtheDNB______.
Whyshouldanyonebuythelatestvolumeintheever-expandingDictionaryofNationalBiography?Idonotmeanthatitisbad,as
Thespeaker,ateacherfromacommunitycollege,addressedasympatheticaudience.Headsnoddedinagreementwhenhesaid,"High
Thousandsofteachersattheelementary,secondary,andcollegelevelscantestifythattheirstudents’writingexhibitsatende
Ofalltheareasoflearningthemostimportantisthedevelopmentofattitudes.Emotionalreactionsaswellaslogicalthought
Thenaturalenvironmenthas,ofcourse,alwaysconditionedtechnology.Forexample,thenatureofanenvironment(polar,desert,
随机试题
冷制冷菜中的腌指的是腌拌,它的选料以脆嫩的动、植物性原料为主。()
初产妇,会阴侧切。产后第3天,体温39.0℃,伴脉速、头痛。下腹疼痛,恶露有臭味。最有效的对因治疗为
甲公司与乙公司于2017年5月20日签订了设备买卖合同,甲为买方,乙为卖方。双方约定:(1)由乙公司于10月30日前分两批向甲公司提供设备10套,价款总计为150万元。(2)甲公司向乙公司给付定金25万元。(3)如一方迟延履行,应向另一方支付违约金2
根据现金持有量的存货模式,下列情形中导致最佳证券交易次数提高的是()。
【2010年福建】从教师与学生的关系来看,新课程要求教师应该是学生学习的()。
A、0B、1C、1/2D、1/3D原数列中分子都为1,各项的分母分别为1,(),7,13,21,由于各项之间相差的较少所以考虑是等差或者等比数列,观察后三项,相减以后为6,8,则推测前一项为4,将其带入得到分母组成的数列为1,3,7,13,21
假设某生产者在基产品市场上是一个完全垄断者,在要素市场上也是一个垄断买方,假设他的生产函数Q=2L,其产品的市场需求曲线P=100-5Q,投入要素的给函数为W=32+L,计算:图示上述计算结果。[东北财经大学801经济学2012研]
在VisualFoxPro中,建立索引的作用之一是提高【】速度。
下列关于数据库设计的叙述中,正确的是
Itisoftenthroughgooddinnersthatonemakesfriends.InJapan,thereare【B1】______"DiningGroups"or"WineGroups",formedb
最新回复
(
0
)