By Katlego Sekhu
Former Prasa head engineer, Daniel Mthimkhulu deemed responsible for lies and dishonesty that saw the country paying R2.6-billion for trains not appropriate for the local network has been found guilty of fraud.
The Johannesburg specialised commercial crimes court magistrate, Benita Oswell found Mthimkhulu guilty on three counts of fraud for submitting fraudulent qualification papers to Prasa, including a fake doctorate degree that he claimed he obtained from the Technische Universitat Munchen in Germany.
Daniel Mthimkhulu submitted six fraudulent qualification documents to Prasa, including a fake master’s degree from the Wits.
With unemployment at an all-time high, more and more job seekers are tempted to lie on their CVs. An American Corporate recruiter with over twenty years of experience gives his expert opinion on the matter.
He warns against lying on your resume/cv as this could backfire and shares advice on how job seekers can improve their chances of finding employment without being dishonest.
“If you lie about a skill that’s going to take you a long time to develop, you’re probably not going to be able to do that in the time frame that you are going to start.
“But if it’s a kind of a simple skill or something that’s pretty common like a specific software program where they use Google Docs and you’ve only used Microsoft Word, I mean, the jump between the two is not huge.
“You could probably spend an hour or two and figure out how to use Google Docs, so in that instance, it’s okay to say that you can use Google Docs.
“But if you’re looking at a major skillset that you are lacking, I would not lie about that. The skill should be easily and readily available to acquire that skill and be able to apply them in a job setting,” he advises.
