People Applying to Nonprofits Most Likely to Lie on Resumes

While they aren't hit as hard on crimiinal backgrounds as other employment sectors, non-profits do apparently face a significantly higher probability that potential employees with lie, exaggerate or otherwise dissemble when when presenting their resumes. No doubt this results in part because non-profits are obviously the least likely to expend precious resources fact-checking resumes:

Of 16 industries ranging from construction to technology, people applying in the nonprofit field during 2005 were most likely to provide false or inconsistent information about their education, according to Infolink Screening Services, a background-checking business in California and a unit of New York's Kroll.

The "hit ratio," as the company describes it, was 21.7 percent for nonprofits, while the average for all industries was 14.1 percent. Applicants for nonprofit jobs also led the way in problems with past-employment verification, which was nearly 10 percentage points higher than the average.

One hopes, at least, that non-profits exercise more discretion when it comes to investment decisions effecting their endowments.

More here, from the New Jerey's own, Star-Ledger.

-- MDT