Lying on Your Resume

This is excellent Sir. Excellent! I just recently experienced deception. Did you know deception is of the evil one. I'm not perfect but I LOVE honesty. Let your yes be yes and your no be no. A lot of the time people aren't honest bcause they don't want to pay the price. They're out for personal gain. I say yes Sir. Yes to honesty. I'm glad to see you back.

Would you please stop kissing his ass?

I have never quite understood why people would put in jeopardy their livelihood over something like this. I consider honesty and integrity to be of the highest important not only in the workplace but in life in general. I've never lied on a resume or during an interview and I don't plan to ever succumb to such a degrading practice.

What goes around , comes around.You will receive only what You have sent.Bumerang efect:-)))))There is no victim,there is executioner.I am bouth.I am none of it:-)I am responsible for every second of my life,I have created it.

I'm a student in the university.I think your advice is important for my future.

In my tenure working in the computer industry, I have found is that it is virtually impossible not to "pad/BS" in your resume. The reason I have noticed this is due to the lack of knowledge that company HR/IT Recruiters/IT managers have in this field.
The best individuals in the computer industry have never even finished college ,(Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Leo Laporte, James Hartman, David Townsend and myself

As a professional resume writer I absolutely agree that lying on your resume is courting a potential disaster. In my blog "Little White Lies" (www.careeredge.com.au) I talk about not only the comprehensive background checks employers are now using to vet potential employees but also the fact that with today's complex situational interviewing, it is very hard to fudge your answers at interview if you haven't actually done what you claim.

I used to work in TV but have now gone back to school. While there, I hired a temp for a short time. She proved to be a hard worker. Her goal in working for me was to find a job in the company. I recommended her for a job working for a friend at CNN. After several months, I asked my friend what happened. My friend said that my temp had lied on her resume. That ended my temp's chances. My friend would not hire her....even though I told her how hard my temp had worked.

What about lying about even going to college on the resume? My situation is this -- i have had over 10 years of solid experience in my field. I started at the bottom and worked my way up. Now in the top 1% payscale of my field.

I have saved the companies I've worked for hundreds of thousands of dollars by being highly motivated, literate, and able to get to the essence of a problem quickly and implement powerful and simple solutions.

I have also developed several programs that have earned money for my employers as well. For example, I spotted a trend in our data accuracy that showed it getting much worse, and I worked with our Board of Directors and top clients to implement financial penalties when gross violations of the business rules arose. In total, I put about 2 weeks of work into this program and with a 15,000 member user base, the program has brought in 20k a month for the last 5 years, but we notice that fines now arise from people trying to bend the rules and us being able to catch them rather than actual data inaccuracy.

We have several college grads in my organization (some from top schools), but none of them have come up with anything siginificant. In general my experience is that most of them do the bare minimum, put their egos ahead of corporate goals, punch the clock, socialize around the office, punch the clock, and go home.

My work history is great but my school history is, well, spotty at best. I attended a top school on the West Coast but my life was very unstable all the way through my adult life and I just couldn't handle the extra committment. That, coupled with the fact that I thought 75% of the curriculum was garbage, I left college a semester shy of a bachelor's in Mathematics to join the workforce instead. I've worked for 3 major companies now, two of which I told I'd gotten the degree instead of the truth, which is that I dropped out. I've been meaning to go back and finish things forever, but I make great money, have a great life with little stress and messiness, so the only reason I can think to go back is personal fulfillment.

In the end the success of my position comes down to managing complexity well, and though sometimes a degree helps in this regard, but it's no guarantee. But not having ye old pigskin always makes getting through the door that much harder, even if it's totally meaniningless once through.

My job: I tackle big problems, learn what I have to (or hire the right people) to get the job done, and enjoy free time and extra cash my employers choose to throw at me when it goes well.

Why wouldn't I lie?

Timeless wisdom. I would add If you can't find a way to tell the truth and still make yourself look good, maybe you should consider changing yourself.

Nobody should trust a liar or a theif. Both actions are based on deception.

Lying to get a job may be a bad thing, but once you have been fired from a job, you have no choice but to lie on your resume and job applications and say that you last job ended in a lay-off or a voluntary resignation. The alternative to lying about having been terminated would mean no job at all. The lie may only work for a while, so once you land a new job, be prepared to stay there for no more then a year. Use the your new positon as an interim job to "clean-up" your employment history and move on to yet another new job berore you get caught in your lie.

If you have been fired from a job, and you don’t intend to share that information as you search for your next job, there are a few things you can do to prevent your next employer from finding out about your past:

1. Hire a lawyer who specializes in employment law and have him send a nasty letter to the company that just fired you threatening to sue them for wrongful termination and defamation of character. You may not have a case, but that doesn’t matter, the mere threat of legal action may be enough to scare them out of telling your next employer that they fired you.

2. Erase your last employer from your history altogether. Find a large company in your area that has recently gone out of business and list them as your most recent employer. As you apply for new jobs in the future and you’re asked why you left your last job, tell them you were laid-off because the company went out of business. Just don’t get carried away with the job description or your salary as you describe your fake experience at the now-dead company. You want everything to be believable, so it should be consistent with your real-life experience.