Mumbai: In the first study of its kind in India, an employee background screening company has found many aspirants give fake information on their background varying from employment to educational details. The study says that 85 percent of those who give fake information on the educational front support it with fake documents.

First Advantage specialises in background screening for 90,000 companies globally. It will make public its first 2008 quarterly report pertaining to the kind of "frauds candidates and employees perpetrate to acquire or retain a job".

First Advantage managing director (West Asia) Ashish Dehade told IANS that the report will be made public early next week.

Talking about the sudden interest of corporates in seeking background screening of potential candidates, Dehade said, "In recent times, we are witnessing a massive discrepancy and a high growth of risks in candidate recruitment and contract staff or vendor hiring".

"One of the reasons why many candidates manage to get away with spurious credentials and documents is because jobs are multi-located. In simple words, jobs are not confined to one region or state or country," he said.

"Thus it becomes very easy for a person to get away with forged documents and fake claims," said Dehade.