Lying is nothing new, and neither is lying on a resume. Last year, the CEO of a New York executive recruitment firm estimated that 40 percent of all resumes are not altogether truthful (story). Employers are not in the dark about this, however. About 40 percent of HR professionals surveyed by the Society for Human Resource Management ”reported they’ve increased the amount of time they spend checking references over the past three years.” It was always risky (not to mention unethical…) to lie on a resume, but now it’s getting much riskier. Simply put, the best advice is the negative of the Nike slogan: “just don’t do it.”
According to Forbes.com, here are the Top Nine Resume Lies…and HR departments are looking out for them!
- Lying about a degree
- Playing with dates (to hide anything from jobhopping to a position you were fired from)
- Exaggerating numbers and former accomplishments
- Increasing previous salary
- Inflating titles
- Lying about technical abilities
- Claiming language fluency
- Providing a fake address (common if someone is moving to a new city)
- Padding grade point averages
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