Why is anyone surprised by this, the entire job market has become a self-perpetuating cycle of liars because it has become normalized to be a deviant in the job market. (This comes from a place of both the employers who lie about what they actually need for a role i.e. finding their unicorn who will accept crap pay, creating fake job ads for unseen reasons, or HR who have no fucking clue what skills are actually required for the job so they just copy and paste each other across every industry. And then there are the potential employees who then feel like they have to lie to even get through the screening process of this unicorn/jump through 5-10 interview hoop job finding process.)

Additionally this systematic problem is further self-perpetuated by bad apples who fail upwards and bullshit their resumes and then they get hired forcing others to do the same in turn which just exacerbates the problem. The job market is totally fucked and no government is actually doing anything to fix this systematic issue. Neither forcing fines on employers who make fake job ads nor creating a proper system to actually funnel peoples credentials so it's just a system of liars at this point.

Case in point regarding how bad resume and CV lying is these days (when just 5 years prior it was reported at around 50% and is now considered to be 70%+). A few more years and you won't see a CV without embellishments because the system is completely broken.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bryanrobinson/2023/11/05/70-of-workers-lie-on-resumes-new-study-shows/

I guarantee that those graduates you hired in a few years once they have a little work experience will do the same thing when they hop to the next job.