Dr. Mojan Safavi says selecting the right employees for her McKinney dental office has been a grinding experience.
"It was a lot of things that they said they could do on their resume that turned out not to be the case," said Advant Dental Dentist Mojan Safavi
Last year, she was constantly hiring and quickly firing because of resume fibbers.
"It was a lot. It was probably over 30 people," said Safavi.
Valerie Freeman runs an HR recuriting firm in Dallas and says resume lies are soaring.
"In fact, the data I`ve seen recently says that about 40 percent of all resumes have some sort of fabrication or exaggeration," said Imprimis Group CEO Valerie Freeman.
She says because of the economy job descriptions have become tighter and applicants desperately want their skills to fit.
"Yes, they`re fudging a little bit to try to get someone to notice them to get them an interview," said Freeman.
Dr. Safavi says a lot of her industry colleagues we're noticing the same thing.
"We started to find many dentist, my friends, they had similar situation, similar issues," she said.
So she and her husband started DentalSpots.com a site designed to help dentists thoroughly vet potential employees.
"Every employer should definitely do their due diligence, which means they have to do a background check," said Freeman.
Safavi says she's learned the hard way and now has a fully competent staff.
"This year, the whole year, we have not had a single staff turnover," she said.
Freeman says people are often lying about things they don’t even need to lie about.
