chartered Human Resources professional that has falsified a CV for their benefit?

[Wildbird73]

Does anyone know how to report someone who has falsified a CV for their own purpose giving my name and details as someone who can give them a reference without my knowledge.

If they're chartered you could report them to whichever chartered body that they are a member of

Have they actually falsified their CV or just named you as a referee without prior permission?

They used my details for a job that I don’t know them in that capacity. I’m a relative and this was not for my opinion about them as a person it was a professional reference for their ability to do the role. I just think it’s wrong when you are saying you are professional. I work in care and this was for a care job so that’s why I think they used me for this purpose. The company found me and rang me to question the reference. This person is actually a registered HR professional but is apparently struggling to gain employment in that field.

Do you mean they have actually falsified a written reference, claiming you wrote it? Or just they put your name down as someone who could be contacted for a reference? Because those are very different things.

The chartered body for HR professionals is the CIPD so you can contact them but they aren't a regulatory body like the SRA or GMC, they issue qualifications but they don't license or regulate HR professionals beyond that really. So I'm not sure how much they'll be able to do. You could complain to their employer if they have one perhaps.

Also, like a PP said, it's not really considered falsification or fraudulent to put someone's name down as a referee without their permission - discourteous and ill advised maybe, but unless they've also told a lie, e.g. saying your job title is something it isn't, giving false contact details, saying you were their line manager when you weren't, something like that, people can put whoever as their references. Its usually not a good idea to put an unwilling or unsuitable person as a referee as usually that person will either not give a reference at all, or give a negative reference or give a reference which is unsuitable (e.g. a character reference when what's required is a managerial reference) and this may result in pre-employment checks being failed and offer of employment withdrawn - but this is between the person and the employer, shouldn't have any negative consequences for the referee...

Sorry cross posted. Well I'd say they've been very silly doing that and presumably have now lost their offer of employment? I'd say you've done the right thing by clarifying with the employer, you don't need to do anything more other than maybe telling your relative in no uncertain terms you won't be participating in any deceptions so not to do it again?

Assuming they actually had the job they said they had, then nothing has been falsified. They’ve just made a poor choice of who to provide as a referee for that / an error in the referee description.

If they claimed they’d had a job they never had, or created a reference supposedly from
you that you didn’t write, then that’s falsifying.

Thanks all.

Yeah, what a foolish thing for them to have done. The fact that the work itself is nothing to do with HR, makes me think reporting them to their governing body wouldn't really be necessary.

It sounds like they wanted care work, hadn't worked in it before, but knew you had so put you down as potential referee. Obviously you declined to provide the reference. So they have kind of been punished enough by their own stupidity. Best to just tell them they shouldn't use people in future without checking first.

They did get the job and have been working
There for over a year. The HR manager of the firm rang me as they were doing an audit of the references and wanted to check my reference.

They haven't done anything wrong, there's nothing to report. I take it you don't like them?