A lie-detector test for resumes

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Wed., May 9, 2012 2:00pm EDT (Reuters) — The furor over new Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson’s inaccurate resume is shining a spotlight on inadequate employee vetting. Thompson, Yahoo’s third CEO in the past year, claimed to have a computer science degree — which he doesn’t — along with his actual degree in accounting. If Yahoo, one of the world’s largest technology companies, with $1.22 billion in revenue in the first quarter of 2012, can be misled, what’s to stop your potential hires from lying on their resumes?

Brian Patrick Eha

Brian Patrick Eha was a technology reporter for American Banker from February 2017 to March 2018. He is the author of How Money Got Free: Bitcoin and the Fight for the Future of Finance, the most … Read full bio


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