What % of people do you think "lie" on their resume...

teachercd

teachercd

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I put lie in " " for the following reasons...I want to use "lie" in conjunction with these words

embellish

exaggerate

fib

deny

reword

Let me give you an idea of what I mean...you are in sales...your team sold 96 million dollars worth of "stuff"

- Resume: Managed a sales team with 100 million dollars in sales (Did you lie a bit?)

You manage a team of 47 people

- Resume: Managed a team of 50 people (Did you lie a bit?)

Hiring dates...you are hired June 28 2010

- Resume Hired June of 2010 (did you lie a bit?)

Old salary: 58,750

- Previous salary: 60,000

So, how many people do you think "lie" on their resumes? I honestly think it is darn close to 100%

 
Is underselling yourself considered lying if you are overqualified for a job? Afraid to be honest because you think will be passed over because of your qualifications?

 
OH HSKR FAN said:
Is underselling yourself considered lying if you are overqualified for a job? Afraid to be honest because you think will be passed over because of your qualifications?
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Yes! I think so...I have done that before...usually its more in the actual interview though...but yes

 
As an IT recruiter.. i would say it is probably about 30-40% of people who flat out lie and make things up.

people who embelish or maybe mislead--80%

 
Minnesota_husker said:
As an IT recruiter.. i would say it is probably about 30-40% of people who flat out lie and make things up.

people who embelish or maybe mislead--80%
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I'm guessing this is about right. The only lie on my resume is that I worked at a job for two months and I quit. I ended up taking another job three weeks later. But I don't list the two-month job, which I guess is a lie.

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Minnesota_husker said:
As an IT recruiter.. i would say it is probably about 30-40% of people who flat out lie and make things up.

people who embelish or maybe mislead--80%
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Can I ask, what do you consider a flat out lie? Like, for IT would be be just flat out lying about a type of coding or something?

 
NUance said:
Minnesota_husker said:
As an IT recruiter.. i would say it is probably about 30-40% of people who flat out lie and make things up.

people who embelish or maybe mislead--80%
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I'm guessing this is about right. The only lie on my resume is that I worked at a job for two months and I quit. I ended up taking another job three weeks later. But I don't list the two-month job, which I guess is a lie.

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Yeah! Exactly! Those two months just kind of "go away", is it a lie, sure, in one way, shape or form...Is it the end of the world...probably not

 
Related Question: what % of employers lie about the description of the open position? For instance, "Account Manager" means Sales.

 
teachercd said:
Minnesota_husker said:
As an IT recruiter.. i would say it is probably about 30-40% of people who flat out lie and make things up.

people who embelish or maybe mislead--80%
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Can I ask, what do you consider a flat out lie? Like, for IT would be be just flat out lying about a type of coding or something?
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Always hard to tell but one big one is that someone lead or managed people.

Or that they used a certain technology and have 5+ years of experience when maybe they were in an environment that it was used and only have 3-4 years of hands on experience.

People always lie about how many years of EXP they have...

 
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nebraskan said:
Related Question: what % of employers lie about the description of the open position? For instance, "Account Manager" means Sales.
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Ha! Also "Marketing" so every hot girl applies with their new marketing degree...and starts pounding out 100 cold calls per day in her knew sales position!

 
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