For the benefit of the person in Career Clinic agonising over whether to come clean about the lies on his, or her, training contract application form, here’s the official advice. He or she should either withdraw the application and start applying for training contracts again after a decent interval, or else come clean to the firm in question and ask for clemency.
This was the view of a group of HR directors I met up with last week during a roundtable staged by recruiters Hays Legal and Legal Week to discuss the latest trends in recruitment and retention.
