August

Labor's Colleen Yates has quit the race for Darling Range citing "intense scrutiny."  Yates listed an MBA from UWA in her LinkedIn profile even though she was never awarded the degree. A number of US universities contradicted other education claims in her online resume.

"I am announcing my resignation as the Labor Candidate for Darling Range," she said in a statement. "How I portrayed myself on my LinkedIn is, in my opinion, similar to how thousands of people would input their data on the online service. However, these minor mistakes will now haunt me for the rest of my life."

Lying on CVs is not an uncommon or new phenomenon - but it is an aspect of recruitment that industry leaders need to watch.

A report from CV-Library found that 92% of jobseekers have successfully gotten away with lying on their CVs, with 71% stating they landed a job as a direct result of that lie.  After interviewing more than 1,000 employees, the report found that there are five areas that candidates are most willing to deceive on:

• Dates of employment - 31.4%,
• Gaps in their CV - 27.1%,
• Salary - 21.4%,
• Work experience - 12.9%
• Responsibilities in previous job -11.4%.

"It 's clear from our findings that workers are not afraid to tell white lies on their CV in order to get a job," said Lee Biggins, MD of CV-Library. "For employers, this means recruitment teams need to become more vigilant when it comes to vetting and assessing potential hires".

According to industry consultants, companies should see GDPR not as just one more irksome compliance challenge, but as an occasion to look more broadly at their security processes and to situate compliance within frameworks that they may already have, at least partially, in place.

They suggest eight principles that can help determine the need for specific GDPR-focused upgrades: including knowing your assets and where they are located, possibly using your current risk management program as-is, perhaps extended to cover a specific focus on protection of GDPR, implementing standard security frameworks to address GDPR and other regulatory requirements, run IT based on best practices all the way from governance down to technical IT processes, always have a valid reason to process PII, get buy-in from management the right way, do regular check-ups of your entire IT environment, and automate whenever and wherever you can.