The code of conduct, entitled "Don't let your career end before it begins", points out that such acts as revising grades, tampering with degree grades, and lying about extracurricular activities and internship experience all belong to the above crimes and fall within the jurisdiction of the Fraud Law.
According to the data provided by the British Anti-Fraud Association, due to the increasing pressure of employment competition, the number of lawsuits triggered by various job resumes in the country surged by 60% last year compared with the previous year. Among them, a girl was sentenced to six months in prison for lying about her grades and forging a recommendation letter, and a boy was sentenced to three months in prison for buying a false master's degree certificate online.
At present, more than 300 anti-fraud agencies, credit reporting agencies, banks, insurance companies and enterprises share fraud information with anti-fraud associations, and registered enterprises can look up the fraud records of job seekers or employers in the fraud database. The anti-fraud association pointed out that once a job seeker is convicted of fraud, the behavior will be recorded in the system database for up to 6 years.
Simon dukes, head of the association, pointed out that the code did not portray young people as fraudsters, but taught them not to underestimate the excessive beautification of resumes, which was not a "white lie" but a crime. "Integrity is a virtue valued by employers and the key to the future success of job seekers." He said.
British degrees are divided into different grades, and the highest is a first-class degree. Generally speaking, when recruiting, the top companies in Britain will basically explicitly require candidates to have at least a second-class degree. Because of this threshold, many second-class and second-class students "upgrade" themselves to meet the standards by tampering and falsifying their grades.
Steve Gedler, head of an employee background check company in the UK, said that most students thought it was common to "beautify their resumes" in a grandiose way, and no one would find it. But in fact, many employers are now inquiring about the real information of resume senders, especially the resumes of recent graduates. Because the fresh graduates have no work experience, the resume difference may not be great, so it is important to verify the information.