There may be multiple reasons for IT people to fake their resumes.
Recruitment is at its high now, but look at some 3-4 years back when companies recruit margianlly and people who completed their studies by that time could not get a job as freshers. Every company expects only experienced (minimum 2 years)..Where they will go for gaining that first 2 years of experience. i have seen people with MCA/BE working in schools/colleges/IT institutes and teaching CSC. When the industry started recovering those people started moving into the industry. If they show that they were teaching and not programming companies will not shortlist them. So obviously they end up faking their resumes to enter the industry.
I think there is no harm in it. if those people are able to cope up with the industry demand then it should be acceptable. What otherwise those people would have done..continue with the same job with salary not enough even to cater their basic needs.
companies instead of simply firing should look into the causes of faking...if people faked degrees then they can take action immediately. but if it is experience companies should analyse the reasons behind it and should handle sensitively.
i am working in IT industry and i have seen many companies fake their employees resume to show the client and get projects. They do that because they dont have people with exp. in that technology but want to get the project. where did keep their dignity/integrity and all other qualities then. They just want to be in business, in simple terms they just want to make money...they have put their honesty behind and doing it...Once the company grew to a certain level got the reputation then they would stop doing it. How this is acceptable
Why dont they think that for this same reason, people are also doing/did it.
If all clients (who are giving projects) to our so called "prestigious Top 10 companies", do a thorough back ground check on these companies and their past records, no IT company would exist in India...
RE:Companies should look back themselves
by Para Mesh on Feb 20, 2007 08:53 PM Permalink
Raja,
Let us not get moralistic. What is good for the goose is obviously not good for the gander. The bane of Indian Society is the holier than thou attitude that a powerful entity, in this case the IT industry, always adopts vis-a-vis vulnerable subordinates, the poor aspiring employee.
RE:RE:Companies should look back themselves
by Kaushik Das on Feb 21, 2007 01:24 AM Permalink
But does the employee, whose resume is being faked by the company, object??? :-)
RE:Companies should look back themselves
by sam on Feb 20, 2007 06:07 PM Permalink
I do agree with you.. You are absouletely right. If companies start showing true CV's to their client.. very few companies will survive in india.. Companies are the one who fake most of the resumes more thant anybody else???
RE:Companies should look back themselves
by Vamsi Nath on Feb 20, 2007 09:04 PM Permalink
Hi.. This is very good explanation which I feel too.. How can the companies expect 2 or 3 exp people when 2 or 3 years back the technology itself was not existing and about the recession in the industry during the peroid 2001-04.
RE:Companies should look back themselves
by Para Mesh on Feb 21, 2007 02:51 AM Permalink
Digest this. The almighty Infy, in its wisdom, recently dropped the clause in its recruitment advertisements where, it insisted on the aspiring candidates possessing an outstanding academic record throughout his/her career. Given most of the job profile in this industry, a moron with an HSC given some training should be able to comfortably cope with the requirements of the coding jobs that constitute 90% of the work. It is old marketing conundrum, the demand and supply matrix, when the demand situation is pitched unrealistic to the ground situation, the supply potential stretches itself to meet such a fake demand. Ergo, you have fake claimants seeking to satisfy the extant fake demands. If the company wants a candidate with knowledge of all the in demand software metrics, with 3 years experience in all of these to boot, the clever chap fakes his resume and claims all the qualifications advertised for. He knows very well that the person interviewing him also has no idea of most of them. He essentially sells himself.
