8216;India Inc hit by lying job seekers8217;

In a statement issued by AsiaNet here today,First Advantage said discrepancy rate related to information given by job applicants stood at 10.6 per cent.

The 8216;Background Screening Trends 8211; India Report8217; is based on background checks conducted between July and September last year.

The discrepancy rate is generally defined as the differences discovered between job applicant-provided data and the actual data during background checks,the statement said.

8220;Our data is showing an increase in the third quarter of 2010 in the overall discrepancy rate in the Engineering,Fast Moving Consumer Goods FMCG and Real Estate Services industries,8221; First Advantage8217;s Executive Managing Director

International Wayne Tollemache said.

Going by the statement,70 per cent of all discrepancies

observed in the third quarter of 2010 involved associate level

employees.