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To: ms.smartest.person who wrote (779)	3/28/2001 11:07:22 PM
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Fudging Figures Is Just The Job For Creative Applicants Stephen Long Article 8 of 200 News 03/29/2001 Australian Financial Review Page 3 Copyright of John Fairfax Group Pty Ltd ABC boss Jonathan Shier did it, Richard Li of Pacific Century CyberWorks did it and so, it seems, do thousands of other job applicants. Fudging the resume is standard practice for thousands of job applicants, according to a new survey. In a poll of 8,000 employees conducted by recruitment company Morgan & Banks, 29 per cent of people admitted to overstating their salary to get a higher starting package when applying for a new job. Adjusting job tenures to cover gaps in the job history, or to inflate job status and responsibilities, was also common. Embellishing was most prevalent among people accustomed to being creative with numbers or facts: more than half of all marketing professionals and more than four in 10 accountants conceded to stretching the truth. And young workers were more likely than older workers to inflate their earnings. Resumes are all about selling yourself, and it's hardly new for job applicants to apply a positive sheen to their CV. But some recruitment professionals and HR management academics say trends in the labour market may be making resume embellishment more likely. ``What we have noticed is because of salary packaging and the way packaging can be applied ... it is very easy to make your own calculation on the worth of the package,'' Morgan & Banks director Mr John Banks said yesterday. ``Some of those estimates are a tad high.'' Dr John Shields, of the school of work and organisational studies at Sydney University, said that resume embellishment could be seen as a reaction to the death of loyalty and greater employer power in today's labour market. ``Employers are ratcheting, in an almost exponential way, the baseline qualifications that they expect for the job,'' he said. But recruiters warn that there are dangers for employees in stretching the truth. ``Most applicants recognise they are going to be reference-checked,'' said the chief executive of Adecco Asia Pacific Group, Ms Rae Roe. ``Falsifying is the fastest way to get yourself struck off the candidate list.'' afr.com 2.95 nrstg2p.djnr.com