A career built on lies is essentially a house built on a poor foundation. One jolt and the whole thing will come crashing down.
For anyone thinking of lying on a resume about their academic credentials in order to give themselves an edge over the competition, you might want to consider an individual who finds himself in the spotlight of ignobility for doing so.
Saanichnews, of British Columbia, reported on one Jason Matthew Walker, a 31-year-old Saanich County police reserve officer who found himself forced to resign in the wake of a criminal investigation that determined his listed academic credentials were falsified.
Walker claimed to have studied at the University of Victoria; the University of Toronto; the University of Calgary; McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario; Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut; and even Smith College, a private women’s college in Northampton, Massachusetts. Whoops.
Mr. Walker heads Health Point Consulting Inc. based out of Saanich and offers clinical counseling and assessment among other services. He was even employed to interview and prepare a report on a 6-year-old child abuse victim in August of 2009 which was utilized in a court case against the victim’s father.
Mr.Walker’s report was also was turned over to officers assigned to the investigation whose suspicions were aroused after a review of his listed doctorates in forensic/behavioral sciences, and medical epidemiology. A search warrant was issued on Dec 31, 2009 for Health Point Consulting and subsequently Walker was arrested.
Currently free until a January 21st court date where he faces charges of fraud, forged documents and false affidavits, Walker must also remove all personal references to himself as “doctor” by January 10th.
This is a good example of the consequences that face individuals who think that lying about their credentials is a smart move to outmaneuver the “suckers’ that actually spent time in school to earn the degrees they tout on a resume. A career built on lies is essentially a house built on a poor foundation. One jolt and the whole thing will come crashing down.
Busted! These kinds of stories are becoming more prevalent in our competitive society. If the proper background check was done on Mr. Walker, it would have saved his employer time, money, and embarrassment.
Thats crazy! I’m not sure why they didn’t try to verify his education with a background check. All this would of been avoided.
It is amazing to me the lengths people will go to get what they want. I am a former medical assistant and I do research on doctors I don’t know before I see them. I want to know that I am being seen by a doctor that knows their stuff.
Mr. Walker… you dolt. A woman’s college? Really?
He deserves to have been caught for making such a silly mistake.
It’s funny because checking education records is as simple as paying $10-15 to an employment screening company.
Oh man, for those of us that put in the long years to rightfully earn a degree it’s sweet justice seeing a cheater like this nailed to the wall.