Tag: resume lies
December 5, 2011|How to find a job, Interesting Facts, Tips At work| No comments yet
Regardless of your career position, standing out in the throng of job seekers is the ultimate goal. Emerging professionals with little work experience to showcase, seekers of mid-career changes as well as senior executives all have the same goal in common: getting the attention of hiring managers and recruiters, nailing the interview and getting the job. In order for these things to happen, however, an impressive resume is in order. In the competitive market of today, making an impression is everything. For many of us, the most difficult product to sell is ourselves. We know the importance of tooting our…
November 28, 2011|Uncategorized| No comments yet
In today’s competitive economy, many job seekers will do anything to get ahead, including lie on their resume to make the information look better. Some potential employees assume that recruiters will not check their references. In most cases, they are wrong. When employers have many job candidates to choose from, they are more likely to thoroughly verify each applicant’s experience. In particular, recruiters look for the most common lies on resumes. Many job applicants falsify their dates of employment to cover gaps in work history. They often rationalize this falsehood by stating that the job itself was real, so they…
October 26, 2011|Interesting Facts| No comments yet
When people are filling out resumes, there are a lot of assumptions that they make. How many businesses are really going to call every job on the list, or call their university to see if they graduated? The lies people tell tend to grow every year, and with the need to fill jobs, a good resume can speak a lot. Here are the top three lies that people tell to get jobs, that without proper vigilance from employers, can work. 1. Hiding The Gaps Adding or subtracting a month to hide a job gap is the most common practice. The…
September 13, 2011|Tips At work| No comments yet
Finding a job these days is certainly tough, and it may be tempting to fudge a little bit on your resume to make yourself seem more appealing as a future employee. The bad news is, this will almost certainly creep up on you one day and nibble you in the rear. Just ask any former CEO that has been forced to resign due to being caught lying on his or her resume, which goes to prove that even the highest positions are not spared when they are found using dishonesty to gain employment. Perhaps the interview was a huge success,…
