Graduate job applicants will cheat to get through employment tests, a survey has revealed.
About 15% of the 500 students and graduates polled by Cubiks HR consultancy said they would be “prepared to gain an unfair advantage” by changing their CV’s and 10% said they would cheat on an unsupervised ability test.
One in 10 also said they would try to cheat on a personality/competency questionnaire.
Louise Tate, principal consultant at Cubiks, said: “Clearly, there are candidates who have no issue with being economical with the truth and employers have to be able to outsmart such people.”
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But, Tate said, employers should be encouraged that the majority of candidates were honest.
“This demonstrates why it is so important for employers to use a combination of different security measures to beat the cheats, and not simply trust CVs, which will only show candidates in the best possible light,” she said.
