Lorraine Tighe has been caught out lying on her CV stating that's she has worked for a company longer than she actually did.
The Apprentice wannabe's lie is exposed on the show when she is grilled in an interview from Sir Alan Sugar's close business friends.
Karren Brady, the managing director of Birmingham City Football Club tells her: "If intuition is your gift, why didn't you use it to put your correct dates of employment down?
"You've overstated your length of time working in your current employment by 12 months, which is quite significant."
Claiming it was a "misprint", Tighe replies: "I suppose I have not fully succeeded in the way that I think I am capable of."
Brady adds: "So is that why you lied on your CV?"
Lorraine, looked puzzled and said, or it must have been a typo... Easy to see why this sort of answer can destroy an applicant's professional credibility, what is not so easy, is to understand why she did it. She knew her CV would be scrutinized and she knew her references would be checked.
It is so common for people to think they can get away with it. For some reason, that we have yet to understand, applicants who know that they will be checked, keep on lying. In this difficult job market this can be career suicide, don't they see it?
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