Contractors, Liars and Fake CV's

[helen]

Hello,
I'm Menelaus' ex-wife, and wanted to post a genuine question to the people of these boards. I've watched him now and then over the last two years, as he procured job after job often with stretched or even on occasion a faked CV - which I would add is a criminal offence - and even seen him dismissed from jobs because of tip-offs suggesting the company look more closely into his CV. Well, either that or being arrested at work, which probably doesn't help.

It seems to me that for contractors there is no effort to check the veracity of a CV or to verify qualifications, and the merit of the person is assessed upon employment. I can understand (for short term work particularly) why this makes sense. However it is also apparent that when Craig has left his job under dim circumstances, he has found it relatively easy to seek new employment, this time with another firm's title to add to his list of places he's worked. Are the firms too embarrassed to admit they hired a fraudulent character? They have the recourse of the law at their hands but is it easier to just fling him back in the contracting pool for some other poor schmuck to deal with? Is it the job of the contracting umbrella companies to check these things out before recommending someone on their books?

Are CV's ever checked, as it seems entirely possibly to blag one's way through a short term job with the kind help of colleagues and some books from Amazon

[EternalOptimist]

genuine answer to a genuine question.

Contractors are a bit like husbands.

If you find yourself with a bad un - they are easy to get rid of.

[Churchill]

Which "Ex-Wife" are you then?

Btw, the only responsibility of an umbrella company is to ensure that invoices are issued and the relevant people paid the relevant(hopefully correct) amounts.

[helen]

This one wasn't. And surely he gives contractors in his industry a bad name?!

[Diestl]

Hello,
I'm Menelaus' ex-wife, and wanted to post a genuine question to the people of these boards. I've watched him now and then over the last two years, as he procured job after job often with stretched or even on occasion a faked CV - which I would add is a criminal offence - and even seen him dismissed from jobs because of tip-offs suggesting the company look more closely into his CV. Well, either that or being arrested at work, which probably doesn't help.

It seems to me that for contractors there is no effort to check the veracity of a CV or to verify qualifications, and the merit of the person is assessed upon employment. I can understand (for short term work particularly) why this makes sense. However it is also apparent that when Craig has left his job under dim circumstances, he has found it relatively easy to seek new employment, this time with another firm's title to add to his list of places he's worked. Are the firms too embarrassed to admit they hired a fraudulent character? They have the recourse of the law at their hands but is it easier to just fling him back in the contracting pool for some other poor schmuck to deal with? Is it the job of the contracting umbrella companies to check these things out before recommending someone on their books?

Are CV's ever checked, as it seems entirely possibly to blag one's way through a short term job with the kind help of colleagues and some books from Amazon

If you can do the job no one cares, if you cant you get fired. CV is just a way of filtering candidated.

[EternalOptimist]

It would be funny if it really his is ex...

my first thought was to ask her how much checking SHE had done on him.

getting a hubby is a bit more important than hiring a snot-nosed code monkey

[DimPrawn]

So after all the lies, deceit and bigamy, Helen's main concern in life is him having a dodgy CV?



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[helen]

Which "Ex-Wife" are you then?

His latest. Although I bloody hate the term. I left him 2 days after the honeymoon. I'm afraid as I have only just registered there is a delay on my posts.

Btw, the only responsibility of an umbrella company is to ensure that invoices are issued and the relevant people paid the relevant(hopefully correct) amounts.

Well that's all right then.

Having known him for the time that I did, I would not be surprised that he could convince someone in the profession he has befriended that any irregularity in his departure is purely a mis-understanding and he has been rather hard done by by everyone, and would they kindly write him a reference.

Unfortunately the sums one can earn contracting in the finance industry mean he can pretend to be who ever he wants in his private life.

[shoes]

We don't have CVs we have advertising brochures hilighting the benefits of the consultants we have available to work on our client companies projects. How many times are clueless fresh grads supplied by the big consultancies as suitable for the clients needs? Contractors are not temporary employees. If a company isn't happy with a company supplying inferior services it needs to look elsewhere, none of this is illegal.

[MrMark]

Incidentally, Helen's number of posts shows as 0. Shouldn't it be 1?
This is a very strange thread indeed...