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You’ re busy filling out the application form for a position you really need; let’ s assume you once actually completed a couple of years of college work or even that you completed your degree.
Isn’t it tempting to lie just a little, to claim on the form that your diploma represents a Harvard degree Or that you finished an extra couple of years back at State University More and more people are turning to utter deception like this to land their job or to move ahead in their careers, for personnel officers, like most Americans, value degrees from famous schools. A job applicant may have a good education anyway, but he or she assumes that chances of being hired are better with a diploma from a well - known university. Registrars at most well - known colleges say they deal with deceitful claims like these at the rate of about one per week.
Personnel officers do check up on degrees listed on application forms, then, if it turns o
A. students attend a school only part -time
B. students never attended a school they listed on their application
C. students purchase false degrees from commercial firms
D. students attended a famous school
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You’ re busy filling out the application form for a position you really need; let’ s assume you once actually completed a couple of years of college work or even that you completed your degree.
Isn’t it tempting to lie just a little, to claim on the form that your diploma represents a Harvard degree Or that you finished an extra couple of years back at State University More and more people are turning to utter deception like this to land their job or to move ahead in their careers, for personnel officers, like most Americans, value degrees from famous schools. A job applicant may have a good education anyway, but he or she assumes that chances of being hired are better with a diploma from a well - known university. Registrars at most well - known colleges say they deal with deceitful claims like these at the rate of about one per week.
Personnel officers do check up on degrees listed on application forms, then, if it turns o
A. performance is a better judge of ability than a college degree
B. experience is the best teacher
C. past work histories influence personnel officers more than degrees do
D. a degree from a famous school enables an applicant to gain advantage over others in job competition
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The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CaIPERS) has positioned itself as the premier champion of investor rights, regularly singling out bad managers at some of the nation’s largest companies in its annual corporate-governance focus lists. And with $153 billion under management, Wall Street tends to listen when CalPERS speaks out. But the country’s largest pension fund has never taken on as big a fish as it did Dec. 16, when it filed a class action against the New York Stock Exchange and seven of its member firms. CalPERS’ suit charges the NYSE and specialist firms with fraud, alleging that the exchange skirted its regulatory duties and allowed its members to trade stocks at the expense of investors.
The move is a major slap in the face for the NYSE’s recently appointed interim Chairman John Reed. The former Citibank chairman and CEO came on board in September after the exchange’s longtime head, Richar
A. the NYSE did ignore its regulatory duties
B. John Reed should resign like his predecessor
C. the investors were dissatisfied with the NYSE
D. the exchange should have its board reelected
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