There is no Reason to Lie on Your Resume or LinkedIn profile…ever! Options

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Unfortunately, faking an education or experience is more common than you might think. With the economy the way it is, companies are downsizing and thus, more people are looking for jobs. As a result, people are feeling pressure to ‘fabricate’ aspects of their resumes in order to stand out from the crowd. We have seen resumes with fabricated educations, expansions of employment dates to remove gaps of unemployment or, even, to hide job experiences with a sour ending, just to avoid the reference check.


Further, it is not just low-level candidates or young people forging their resumes; of course, everyone wants their resumes to look sharper and cleaner. The line is crossed, however, when someone actually acts on the desire to appear as a better candidate. I, once, had a 250k candidate that was getting a job offer for a consulting firm. This person had the perfect experience and background the company desired: the only issue was the fact that the college degree was a fake. When we ran two different




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