Why Fake Your
Resume?
Have you ever been passed over for a job
despite the fact you KNEW you could’ve done the job in a
stellar fashion? Are you frustrated because
you never got a college degree yet do the EXACT same job as
someone who does and you get paid thousands of dollars less?
Have you been hampered from moving up in the professional
world because you lacked the “right” job title despite the
fact your employment experience was exactly what the job
description listed? If this describes you then
perhaps it’s time you wrote a fake
resume.
Why write a fake resume? There are many
legitimate reasons for writing a fake resume. Perhaps your current
job title didn't properly convey all the duties or
responsibilities that you had. Maybe you were
unemployed for a period of time. Everyone knows that
doesn't look good on your resume. Did you assist a
manager who was incompetent and you made them look good
on the job?
Better yet, YOU did their job but for whatever reason,
perhaps because of nepotism you could never get promoted
to their job. Out of frustration you
quit but now you CAN’T put that fools job title as your
own despite the fact that YOU did his/her
job! Worse
yet due to jealousy or animosity because you quit and now
for the first time they HAVE to do their own work they
won’t give you a good reference.
The bottom line is if you know you can do the
job, then why shouldn't you fluff up your resume a
bit? We all
know a great deal of people who have held jobs that they
were not qualified to have. Yet there they were day
in and day out collecting big paychecks while other
people corrected their frequent mistakes.
This underground guide will teach you how to
take your real life experience and embellished on them so
you get the job you deserve.
Can this be considered lying? Perhaps, but don't you
deserve a shot a job you know you can do?
What about your prospective employer’s
honesty? How
open and honest are they to their employees and future
employees?
Anyone who’s read the newspaper or watched the evening
news has witnessed the lack of integrity that runs
rampant in today’s corporate world. In my experience very
few employers will fully reveal any unpleasant details
affecting the positions they advertise. I had a candidate
that lived in New York and I recruited for a
startup in California. He and I were both
assured that this start up was financially stable and had
enough cash flow at the current burn rate to stay in
business three years. I personally spoke with
the Chief Financial Officer to question him about the
long term stability of the client. I wasn’t about to have
a person give up their life and move away from family and
friends for something that wasn’t reasonably
stable.
Based on the assurance given me and my candidate by the CFO,
he accepted the job, gave up his rent controlled
apartment in New York and moved to California. About 12
weeks later he and half of the company were
unceremoniously laid off. I couldn’t begin to
explain how devastated I was when I learned of this
disaster. After all this man gave up his life due in
large part because I convinced him to move all the way
across the country for the job. He ended up suing the
company but I never learned what happened or heard from
the man again. After that debacle I
never again looked at corporate America in the same
manner.
Perhaps your
future boss or co-workers are complete bastards. Perhaps they
know that the division you’ll be working for will soon be
eliminated, or perhaps the entire corporation is in financial
trouble and will soon be laying off large numbers of employees.
In cases like these, you can bet that the hiring corporation
will seldom let issues like fairness and morality get in their
way. They need to fill the job and get on with their business.
It’s a sad fact that corporations are seldom completely honest
when it comes to the information that an applicant needs to
make an intelligent decision about the desirability of the
position. It seems very hypocritical for a prospective employer
to insist on applicants being entirely honest while they
regularly conceal relevant job details.
“Hire Right” recently released some interesting
statistics that show how rampant resume fraud is in the
United States. The company’s numbers show that 80 percent
of all resumes are misleading, 20 percent state
fraudulent degrees, 30 percent show altered employment
dates, 40 percent have inflated salary claims, 30 percent
have inaccurate job descriptions, 25 percent list
companies that no longer exist, and 27 percent give
falsified references
Some statistics state that if you reviewed 100
resumes, a whopping 75 percent of them would reveal a
"fib, fallacy or some outright lie.
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