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TCS probes fake resume racket

Takes action against errant employees

CMN Bureau

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

BANGALORE, INDIA: India's top IT services provider Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has initiated an internal investigation to identify and take action against employees who had submitted fake resumes.

A news report said that TCS sacked at least 20 employees who had provided fake resumes to get jobs with the company.

TCS mentioned about a racket in an e-mailed statement, which hints at the involvement of more people.

Earlier, instances of recruitment firms acting in collusion with jobseekers who fudge their resumes to improve chances of getting jobs were reported in the media. Wipro even approached the police against a few such firms.

“As a customer focused organization, security is of paramount importance to us," a TCS spokesperson said in the statement. "We have a stringent background verification process in TCS. We take this process very seriously and have issued action against the errant employees. We have launched an internal investigation to identify the entire ecosystem and all involved in the racket.”

The spokesperson, however, refused to provide more information. "We will not be able to share more than (what is said in) the statement," he said.

Last week, Infosys Technologies said it had sacked 100 employees in the fiscal year `07 due to discrepancies found in the resumes submitted at the time of joining.

No respite

The menace of fake resumes assumed alarming proportions in 2006. Though it served as a warning bell, the industry has not witnessed any respite. Indian IT firms are taking stringent measures against those who indulge in "padding" or fudging their resumes.

Earlier firms used to make reference checks only on those with more than 10 years of experience. But now almost all employees had to undergo such checks.

Quoting industry sources, Madan Padaki, co-founder and CEO of MeritTrac Services, said anywhere between 15-25 per cent of all CVs in the marketplace are fake. CVs are faked in three major areas: with reference to skills, technical knowledge and work experience, salary, designation and qualification and references.

The problem of fake resumes is universal in nature and not confined to any specific sector. The magnitude of the problem though varies based on the scale of recruitments.

"Recognition of this problem by companies has again been dependent on the scale of recruitments. While the IT industry was quick to sense this menace and take measures to curb it," Padaki said.

The existing talent landscape has precipitated the problem of fake CVs becoming a major area of concern for corporates.

He added: "The scarcity and diffusion of employable talent and the sheer numbers in terms of applicants as well as the great demand for talent has placed tremendous burdens on recruiting teams. In the chase for numbers and quality along with the lack of bandwidth of recruiting teams has over time resulted in the slackening of procedures contributing to this scenario."

What next?

Padaki opined that scientific assessments are the most important element in eradicating this problem, but the whole recruiting process needs to be geared up to leave no loose ends.

"CV screening should act as a first checkpoint, followed by scientific testing of skills, personal interviews and thorough reference checks. These are just some of the scientific measures that can be adopted internally. Apart from this efficient vendor identification and management of talent sources is essential," he further said.

Nasscom's National Skills Registry helps in background checks. Speaking at the recently concluded Nasscom annual HR summit in Chennai, Raju Bhatnagar, vice-president, Nasscom, said about three lakh registrations have been done online so far.

A panel of about 13 nominated members helps in checking the background and claims of those registered.

Further, Nasscom in January launched NAC-Tech with MeritTrac as the assessment partner, which aims to certify skills for the IT space and create a national benchmark for quality.

Earlier, Bangalore-based MindTree Consulting published a book titled All About Integrity, in a bid to check the menace of fake resumes, which had been around since the 2000 IT boom.

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Collapse <div runat='server' id=Comm45061 class='CommentsContainer'><span class='commentsFrom' style='float:left;'>nikit said on 11/11/2011 11:29:39 AM: </span><br/>Earlier, instances of recruitment firms acting in collusion with jobseekers who fudge their resumes to improve chances of getting jobs were reported in the media. Wipro even approached the police against a few such firms.
I think we all should stand up against faking the entire resume. Consutlant from school has "0" Experience, and their resume are claiming 8+ years of USA experience. Surprised! But this is the hard truth. In Sulekha you will find plenty company who provides and get you a job, well they can only get you a job by faking resume. Sad but truth, that Indians are both the victim and predetor of this practice.
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nikit said on 11/11/2011 11:29:39 AM:
Earlier, instances of recruitment firms acting in collusion with jobseekers who fudge their resumes to improve chances of getting jobs were reported in the media. Wipro even approached the police against a few such firms. I think we all should stand up against faking the entire resume. Consutlant from school has "0" Experience, and their resume are claiming 8+ years of USA experience. Surprised! But this is the hard truth. In Sulekha you will find plenty company who provides and get you a job, well they can only get you a job by faking resume. Sad but truth, that Indians are both the victim and predetor of this practice.

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rajesh said on 2/18/2012 12:56:58 AM:
i would like to tell some scenarios there are many candidates who worked years in companies and when they want to relieve from the company will not relieve and will not give experience letters? what about them? 2)in x company i quarreled with the manager thats manger mistake and after some days with out notice he send out from the company?then i can not move to courts i dont have such money to do all the stuff 3)the companies takes me by telling development project and they kept me in support? 4)the company takes me for x technology which i am interested but they will move to other then? 5)bank statement why should i give my personnel property to company? 6)some companies fire in recission so how can i fill the gap? 7)the company wants me to join in nly 15 days but my notice period is 3 months then? 8)what if my previous company closed because lack of projects 9)what if my previous has doing business for giving fake experience with taking huge money like this there are 1000s of problem from candidate perceptive who will answer these all the govt has to follow some standards to do all and if company takes a candidate weather he is fake or genuine they need to keep as promises made and if they want to do any verificaton they have to dobefore offerletter release?

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ramya said on 11/11/2011 11:25:27 AM:
they should also check how each one accounts for his time in the office. how much of it is productive work and how much is spent on mails / chats / personal financial transaction they might be surprised and most companies bill the clients for the time the employees put in and when the client realises that they would probably do the work in their native country than outsourcing TCS hires candidates for senior level position who were originally thrown out more than once from their earlier organisation due to misappropriation ...............so what kind of background check it does i doubt on that

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Pratap said on 11/11/2011 11:23:25 AM:
As long as stupid US companies keep paying $100/hr for a guy sitting in a hut in Bangalore, I do not think any checks and bounds will help this rampant forgery

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Collapse <div runat='server' id=Comm45055 class='CommentsContainer'><span class='commentsFrom' style='float:left;'>abc said on 11/11/2011 10:36:25 AM: </span><br/>In TCS many fake candidates are there. Some of them are being saved in TCL (Mumbai) as Database Administrators(Db2). Because many of the people are not interested for Mumbai.until they are local residents or from maharastra. Hence the fake candidates are interested to mumbai TCL.<div class='CommentLineContainer'><input type=button onClick='MoveComm(45055,ctl00_ctl00_ctl00_cphMainContentSection_cphMainContentSection_cphSection1ContentPart_ThreadedComments1_txtPid);' value='Reply'/> to abc </div>

abc said on 11/11/2011 10:36:25 AM:
In TCS many fake candidates are there. Some of them are being saved in TCL (Mumbai) as Database Administrators(Db2). Because many of the people are not interested for Mumbai.until they are local residents or from maharastra. Hence the fake candidates are interested to mumbai TCL.

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Swetha said on 11/11/2011 11:06:07 AM:
TCS says this""We have a stringent background verification process in TCS. We take this process very seriously and have issued action against the errant employees. We have launched an internal investigation to identify the entire ecosystem and all involved in the racket.” But still some of the fakes are there in TCS.

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Bhpal sing said on 11/11/2011 11:20:34 AM:
Sorry to say, But TCS are the people who hire maximum consutlant with fabricated resume. There recruits in USA, are greedy to make money beside regualr salary, and hence they pick up consutlant from local body shopping company. Backgorund check does reveals that the consutlant are on OPT status, or recently acquired a H1B status, however that truth is keep shhh.. by the hiring manager of TCS itself. I think we all should stand up against faking the entire resume. Consutlant from school has "0" Experience, and their resume are claiming 8+ years of USA experience. Surprised! But this is the hard truth. In Sulekha you will find plenty company who provides and get you a job, well they can only get you a job by faking resume. Sad but truth, that Indians are both the victim and predetor of this practice.

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Pamela said on 10/15/2011 12:55:10 AM:
Sorry to say, But TCS are the people who hire maximum consutlant with fabricated resume. There recruits in USA, are greedy to make money beside regualr salary, and hence they pick up consutlant from local body shopping company. Backgorund check does reveals that the consutlant are on OPT status, or recently acquired a H1B status, however that truth is keep shhh.. by the hiring manager of TCS itself. I think we all should stand up against faking the entire resume. Consutlant from school has "0" Experience, and their resume are claiming 8+ years of USA experience. Surprised! But this is the hard truth. In Sulekha you will find plenty company who provides and get you a job, well they can only get you a job by faking resume. Sad but truth, that Indians are both the victim and predetor of this practice.

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Pamela said on 10/15/2011 12:54:51 AM:
Sorry to say, But TCS are the people who hire maximum consutlant with fabricated resume. There recruits in USA, are greedy to make money beside regualr salary, and hence they pick up consutlant from local body shopping company. Backgorund check does reveals that the consutlant are on OPT status, or recently acquired a H1B status, however that truth is keep shhh.. by the hiring manager of TCS itself. I think we all should stand up against faking the entire resume. Consutlant from school has "0" Experience, and their resume are claiming 8+ years of USA experience. Surprised! But this is the hard truth. In Sulekha you will find plenty company who provides and get you a job, well they can only get you a job by faking resume. Sad but truth, that Indians are both the victim and predetor of this practice.

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Pamela said on 10/15/2011 12:54:33 AM:
Sorry to say, But TCS are the people who hire maximum consutlant with fabricated resume. There recruits in USA, are greedy to make money beside regualr salary, and hence they pick up consutlant from local body shopping company. Backgorund check does reveals that the consutlant are on OPT status, or recently acquired a H1B status, however that truth is keep shhh.. by the hiring manager of TCS itself. I think we all should stand up against faking the entire resume. Consutlant from school has "0" Experience, and their resume are claiming 8+ years of USA experience. Surprised! But this is the hard truth. In Sulekha you will find plenty company who provides and get you a job, well they can only get you a job by faking resume. Sad but truth, that Indians are both the victim and predetor of this practice.

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Collapse <div runat='server' id=Comm41108 class='CommentsContainer'><span class='commentsFrom' style='float:left;'>Jakson said on 4/26/2011 12:15:10 AM: </span><br/>It's fine....We have only way to enter into the IT field..Because the companies would not consider early passed out students...Please suggest another way....we did not come with fake resumes<div class='CommentLineContainer'><input type=button onClick='MoveComm(41108,ctl00_ctl00_ctl00_cphMainContentSection_cphMainContentSection_cphSection1ContentPart_ThreadedComments1_txtPid);' value='Reply'/> to Jakson </div>

Jakson said on 4/26/2011 12:15:10 AM:
It's fine....We have only way to enter into the IT field..Because the companies would not consider early passed out students...Please suggest another way....we did not come with fake resumes

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TruthSaviour said on 1/29/2012 3:12:46 PM:
Well Said Bro.However, these IT companies also do cheat their clients by clocking higher working hours and charging huge amount. So, no need to consider that the companies are like GOD

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Matari said on 11/3/2010 12:24:56 PM:
TCS hires candidates for senior level position who were originally thrown out more than once from their earlier organisation due to misappropriation ...............so what kind of background check it does i doubt on that

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nithanth said on 2/24/2009 4:41:39 PM:
its very good............

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Sameer said on 12/27/2008 7:32:56 PM:
i would like to ask a question to these guys. why cant a candidate who has passed a few years ago and eager to join IT industry and also possess the required skilars earlier ls but has no real time experience , will TCS consider such employees .

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suee said on 7/20/2008 1:20:46 PM:
GODFATHER HEADLINES: Fortune begins with crime. F 500 companies make shareholdingequity 2 raise huge amount of money in nasdaq taking away the harvesting farmers land for industrialisation.Where does the leave guy next door looking for oppurtunity,ONLY 2 FAKE.

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Suresh said on 7/20/2008 1:11:35 PM:
As there is no hold in university results.And NFTE not fit for techical education and provisional pass certificate cannot help candidate addmited in regular government and private colleges.Degree achieved even after and more than 4 academic years,have not been valued and placed in jobs by govt employment exchange and private placement and consultants they are always pron to causes and fake job rackets in india around the world.No proper implimentation of education system ,poor appitite of studies,Tutorials and books,and weak coaching by few masters and lecturers and prof result in such problems.

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Marc said on 7/20/2008 2:22:54 AM:
As long as stupid US companies keep paying $100/hr for a guy sitting in a hut in Bangalore, I do not think any checks and bounds will help this rampant forgery.

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Desi Techie said on 7/18/2008 11:34:41 PM:
This Barun guy is fake too...clues? Look at his english vocabulary.

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XYZ said on 7/17/2008 11:07:07 PM:
I work of top IT company and we know what faking they do while getting billing for headcount from client. Take a campus out into the company, train them for 3 months then put them in shadow mode for 6 months in half billing then after one year - these rookies will become 1 year experienced [calculated from day1 of joining date]. How come they consider induction training, shadow training into realtime experience. These companies suck the work from capable person and find some reason during recession period to sack them. Even they trick foreign embassy to get VISA by giving well fine tuned fake CV to impress the embassy. Once they got VISA, then IT companies exploit the employee salary through foreign contract/bonds etc..even though indian labor law states none considered to be bonded labors in front of attorney. Politician wont bother about it as long as they get their % and moreover if IT is disturbed then indian economy & growth story might take U turn. IT companies should look for talented people and not experienced. EXPERIENCE makes most as like GOVT staff and they survive by past service history - their deliverable is comparitively lower than capable hands. Note: Im not blaming all but the MOST

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Manoj said on 7/17/2008 6:40:39 PM:
Why should we think faking is fine if he/she has the capabilities? Being a capable person does not provide you the right to tell lies. A company can take a decision whether they wants to recruit capable person or person with genuine experience and all. But a company cant tolerate somebody who betrays it just because he/she is capable. Otherwise he/she should be so capable that nobody can match him/her. Then the company may be forced to accommodate him/her.

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ranjith said on 7/17/2008 5:59:00 PM:
We should 100% agree on Divyas comment. Company should identify that the candidate is capable to do his job or not. I am working in an MNC and there are about 10 people reports to me. I know how many are fake and how many have genuine experience. And who ever are fake are getting good performance ratings every year and who have genuine experience are fail to meet deliveries. I am not saying all the genuine candidates are not capable, but attitude is what is important to perform a job. All the companies should look at a person Attitude, Technical Skills. If you find both this in a candidate then never bother about a fake resume and genuine resume.

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Barun said on 7/17/2008 4:17:12 PM:
My whole votes goes to Divya.I am in sink with Divya.The company who is exposing fake resume,themself analyse there window first.Meida and some other organization should come up to expose the It Idustry firing employee becouse of fake resume.Imagine a employee serving for 10 year, get fired becouse of fake dosument ? It is redicolous and shame for IT company.

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Chandra said on 7/17/2008 2:53:21 PM:
What is this mention abt racket? Does that mean those responsible for recruiting were helping fakers?

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krishna said on 7/17/2008 12:03:49 PM:
We should 100% agree on Divyas comment. Company should identify that the candidate is capable to do his job or not. I am working in an MNC and there are about 10 people reports to me. I know how many are fake and how many have genuine experience. And who ever are fake are getting good performance ratings every year and who have genuine experience are fail to meet deliveries. I am not saying all the genuine candidates are not capable, but attitude is what is important to perform a job. All the companies should look at a person Attitude, Technical Skills. If you find both this in a candidate then never bother about a fake resume and genuine resume. why to keep a person who want to spend his time on checking personal mails, spending time in pantry and chit-chat with colegues..etc, they are the waste people to industry. Identify such kind of people and sack them out.

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divya said on 7/17/2008 11:23:34 AM:
The Candidates Capabitlity should be counted , not whether he is from fake or genuine, if he is capable to work in their organisation then only he / she should be recruited. Some times experience people also fail , So i guess these experience certificates and the rest doesnt sound before once capabilities, Before taking into the organisation itself they should check.(not after making them work for your organisation for some period of time and @ the salary point blaming on the candidates as fake ... this is rubbish i guess!!!)

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G Prasad said on 7/17/2008 10:58:02 AM:
TCS results tell it all. They want cut costs and hence pink slipping people. The CBI should look into the matter. Let the truth come out.

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Naidu said on 7/17/2008 9:34:47 AM:
Its happening from past so many years in almost all the compaines, Now they are telling some stories to remove the people

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Sandy said on 7/16/2008 9:08:10 PM:
TCS it self fakes resumes for visa to US and other countries..its such a hypocrisy

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kk said on 7/16/2008 9:00:49 PM:
This is right.

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kk said on 7/16/2008 8:59:50 PM:
This is for .net.

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Vixo said on 7/16/2008 6:45:39 PM:
This is just an eyewash, a way to layoff, without telling the industry and investors. This fact is known for ages., then why NOW?

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jay said on 7/16/2008 5:00:48 PM:
they should also check how each one accounts for his time in the office. how much of it is productive work and how much is spent on mails / chats / personal financial transaction they might be surprised and most companies bill the clients for the time the employees put in and when the client realises that they would probably do the work in their native country than outsourcing

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Hari said on 7/15/2008 6:52:43 PM:
There are many companies from where one can buy experience certificates. Some of them even cheat people after taking money. This report hasnt mentioned them.

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