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THOSE LITTLE WHITE LIES

Experian, a credit rating co. checks university qualifications for hiring firms. ¼ of CVs contain lies, be they the CV of a secretary or a politician. 2/3 of recruiters do not check vital skills of seretarial staff who lie to get work in a hard to enter sector. Some employers see through unqualified candidates and recruitment agencies test skills upfront thus avoiding placing workers in a job they are unfit for.

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The January 24, 2000 Article from The Guardian entitled Those little white lies deals with people who lie on their CVs. To help companies avoid being cheated by an applicant who exaggerates his skills on his CV, the credit reference company Experian signed a deal with the UK's universities to get the list of diplomas obtained by students since 1995. The Association of Search and Selection Consultants explains that one person in four lies in his CV, for example by mixing up names of schools with famous ones or by specifying a diploma they didn't get. This is a very common phenomenon in the recruitment of secretaries when two thirds of employers do not test their skills. But it could prove humiliating either in the interview or in your future job when the lie is discovered. Employers are becoming more cautious by resorting to recruitment consultancies which go through detailed examination of the skills of applicants.

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• The title, date and source of the article incomplete.
• Confusion in the title, not little 'quiet' or even 'black' ! lies but WHITE.
• Some spelling : recrUItment, exaGGerate, hoNest, persoN ; persoNal, persoNally, persoNNel ; fulfiL.
• Some vocab : période d'essai = trial period ; formation = training ; intéressant (avantageux) =attractive, good, favourable ; important (quantitative) = considerable, sizeable ; contrôler = to check ; informations = information (sing.) ; to lie ON = allonger/ to lie ABOUT = mentir sur
• Some grammar issues : the applicant who lies... ; the chances of being recruited ; the possibility of seeing ; the risk of becoming ; etc.