(ECNS) – University graduates are increasingly inflating their resumes in order to get job interview opportunities, Xinhua News Agency reports.
"In every five resumes I read, one makes me doubt whether it is true or not," said Cheng Yujia, a recruitment manager with a Heilongjiang-based dairy company.
Against the backdrop of a slowing economy and a lackluster job market, some graduates are making their resumes look more attractive, the report said. As a result, Communist Youth League members became Party members overnight, graduates promoted themselves to student cadres, others made up internships at companies, and a "master's program" at a prestigious university turned out to be short-term training course.
It is difficult and costly for employers to verify every piece of information on hundreds of resumes they receive in a short period of time, which add potential costs to the recruitment process, the report said. A new employee who has fabricated his or her resume could be unsuitable for the job and must be fired, which means a waste of resources, including time and money.
Zhao Rui, a master's student at Renmin University of China, said resume fraud is unfair and hurts those who are capable of actually doing the jobs.
A teacher surnamed Xu at Chengdu University of Information Technology said the university opposes resume fraud, but has no way to stop it.
Wu Fan, a professor at Nankai University, attributed the phenomenon to the absence of a communication mechanism among employers and the lack of a shared credit database in China. Wu called for a blacklist of dishonest job seekers, as well as improved moral education for students.
