DISHONORABLE DEGREES.(inaccuracy of information presented on resumes)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 04-NOV-02

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Twice a year, Jude M. Werra, of Jude M. Werra & Associates, a headhunting firm in Brookfield, Wisconsin, reviews the hundreds of resumes he has seen in the previous six months--the elegant, triumphant C.V.s of C.E.O.s and V.P.s--and he condenses them into a single statistic. "It's the number of people who've misrepresented their education divided by the number of people whose education we checked," Werra explained last week: in short, the percentage of people who invented a degree. Werra calls it the Liars Index. The index, which has been published since 1995,...

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