>> If someone lies on their CV and is caught out another/more candidates will be chosen to interview, no? Not really. Imagine three candidates: A, B and C. A i

>> If someone lies on their CV and is caught out another/more candidates will be chosen to interview, no? Not really. Imagine three candidates: A, B and C. A is much better as professional, but B is good enough and has much better CV, C is trash but with great CV. If you interview B and C, you will hire B and never call A. Not optimal. If B is not good enough, you will hire A, but also waste time. If I know that B or C is from culture where lie is more common I will adjust my expectations and call A and B or C, but A will be included. Actually I believe that some statistically proven bias is healthy thing. I conducted many interviews and I can say the following: 1) People tend to lie in CV in very specific patterns. By just reading CV, even with name and age hidden I can guess sex and age relatively easy. Not 100%, but much better than 50%. 2) Everybody lies (c) House M.D. Really, everyone. But different people lie differently, because different things are important to them and they want to look better at different things. I simply saw that many times. By knowing personal details I may adjust what I see in CV to get much more realistic picture. This is bias, yes, it is. But what can I do? Ask them not to lie? Real life does not work like that. 3) I will not, for instance, hire someone of significantly different hygiene standards. Has nothing to do with CV.