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Everyone’s Doing It!

What do Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Joseph Ellis, former Oregon congressman Wes Cooley, Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr., D-Del., one-time Washington Post reporter Janet Cooke, television evangelist Pat Robertson and George O'Leary, the Notre Dame Football coach for five days, have in common? They all at one time in their lives decided to inflate their resumes. To pump them up a bit to make themselves look more impressive, and then they got caught.

Ellis and Cooley claimed war records that proved fictitious. Biden inflated his college academic credentials and borrowed from the speeches of a British politician to enhance his own. Cooke inflated her academic record to get hired at the Washington Post, chronicled the life of a youthful heroin addict who did not exist and won a Pulitzer that had to be returned by the newspaper. Robertson fudged the date of his marriage and claimed on a resume that an arts course for tourists was graduate study abroad.

Which brings us to O'Leary; most recently the Georgia Tech football coach, who got hired at the University of Notre Dame only to have to resign five days later when it turned out that, no, he hadn't won three football letters at his alma mater, the University of New Hampshire -- and in fact hadn't even played there due to illness and injury. Moreover, he didn't earn a master's degree from New York University. He had claimed his football prowess and postgraduate degree for more than two decades.

The list of who’s been caught blatantly lying on their resumes reads like a Who’s Who list from every industry and sector imaginable

A Pulitzer Prize Winner!

A 2001 Pulitzer Prize-winning author and history professor, Joseph Ellis, is among the many offenders who have admitted fabricating Vietnam War roles. Another was Toronto Blue Jays manager Tim Johnson, fired in 1999 over combat lies.

The Head of Houston’s Transit Authority

The $210,000-a-year president of the Houston area's transit authority, Shirley DeLibero does not hold two associate degrees listed on her resume, the Houston Chronicle reported.

Metropolitan Transit Authority board Chairman Robert Miller said he continued to support Shirley DeLibero despite the false degree claims, which have been widely reported in past news stories profiling DeLibero. Despite

A large company CFO!

A tip e-mailed to a Veritas board member exposed Kenneth E. Lonchar, the Mountain View-based company's CFO since 1997.

After investigating Lonchar's resume, Veritas discovered the executive had fabricated some of his academic credentials, including a Stanford University MBA that he never received.

The Former President of Lotus (An IBM Company)

The Wall Street Journal did a front page expose on Jeffrey Papows, the President of Lotus, a division of IBM. Mr. Papows was granted an honorary degree from a Southern University and as standard procedure; the school requested and received a copy of Mr. Papow's resume. He used several methods to embellish his resume, including Reaching, Shading, and Tuning, all of which is discussed in greater depth later in this guide.

The following discrepancies were uncovered by the Wall Street Journal:

• US Marines Air Traffic Controller position is turned into being a F-4Phantom fighter pilot (Reaching)
• A Masters from Pepperdine University is turned into a Ph. d. from Pepperdine University (Reaching)
• A Ph. d. degree from a correspondence unaccredited course is represented as coming from Pepperdine (Shading/Tuning)
• Higher rank in military - "Captain" is claimed rather than the actual 1st Lieutenant (Reaching)

Direct quote from Jeffery Papows -, "I in some senses am guilty of exaggerating and embellishing for a purpose from a business standpoint."

The bottom line is that Shading/tuning/reaching is hard to catch! Standard verification tools such as background checks, testing programs and the one-on-one interview process fall short to catch resume tuning.

A Congressman and a Judge !

In the mid-'90s, former U.S. Rep. Wes Cooley was convicted of lying in Oregon voters' pamphlets after claiming he fought in the Korean War; federal Judge James Ware's nomination to a higher court was tripped up by the discovery that he lied repeatedly about being the brother of a black teen-ager killed by whites in 1963.

Which brings us to O'Leary; Most recently the Georgia Tech football coach, who was hired by the University of Notre Dame only to be forced to resign five days later when it turned out that, no, he hadn't won three football letters at his alma mater, the University of New Hampshire. In fact hadn't even played there due to illness and injury. Moreover, he didn't earn a master's degree from New York University. He had claimed his football prowess and postgraduate degree for more than two decades.

Charles Ford, a medical professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and author of Lies! Lies!! Lies!!! The Psychology of Deceit, said his research led him to believe that at least a third of job applicants embellish their resumes.

 Exactly how wide spread is fraud and lying on resumes?

How many of us “fudge” our CVs? Most of us, right? Especially if fudging includes “tailoring” CVs to the position being applied for in order to “emphasize” relevant experience and qualifications.

There is no lack of surveys showing that resume fraud is rampant but none agrees to the exact number. Take for example a recent survey by Morgan & Banks that found that an alarming 17 per cent of male and 7 per cent of female respondents admitted to lying outright on their CVs to secure a position, with those earning $50,000-$100,000 most likely to commit what the Americans call “resume fraud”. If you think those figures are causes for concern, how about this one: an astounding 80 per cent of Silicon Valley employees admit to having lied on their resumes.

A survey by the New York Times Job Market research team indicates that 89% of job seekers and 49% of hiring managers in the New York metropolitan area believe that a significant number of candidates pad their resumes.

The researchers define resume padding as falsifying information on a resume to make a candidate look stronger. The hiring managers who believe that a significant number of resumes are padded consider that (on average) 52% of the resumes they receive are padded. However just 13% of job seekers surveyed admitted to ever having padded their resumes.

82% of responding job seekers say they think companies are aware of resume padding and believe that companies perform background checks on the following:

In fact, about 30 percent of all job applicants make material misrepresentations on resumes, according to some staffing experts. ADP Screening and Selection Services, a unit of the Roseland, N.J.-based ADP payroll and benefits managing company, says that in performing 2.6 million background checks in 2001, it found that 44 percent of applicants lied about their work histories, 41 percent lied about their education, and 23 percent falsified credentials or licenses.

New York-based corporate investigation firm, Michael G. Kessler & Associates Ltd. recently wrapped up a six-month study in which 25% of the 1,000 resumes the company examined were fraudulent in some way. In many cases, the false claims were supported by fake documentation obtained via the Web. For as little as $150, you can become certified in just about anything on the Web. (See Resources Chapter for more information)

In reality, what you're doing is helping your potential employer to take the best candidate for the job, you.  From a moral standpoint, don't go applying for jobs that you're obviously not qualified to do.  If you never graduated from high school, don't delude yourself into thinking you can become a heart surgeon.  However, if you were an assistant sales manager at a company, and you practically ran the place, you should consider padding your resume to help you get the job you were already doing but never got credit for doing.

Resumes are not legal documents, so there's not much an employer can do if you lie, except decline to hire you. Nevertheless, if you lie on your resume, you'll have to follow suit on your job application or risk immediate exposure. Job applications are legal documents. If it comes out later that you lied on your job application, your employer has the right to fire you, even if you've performed well.

A little resume sprucing is part of the process. Employers expect you to jazz up your resume a bit and tailor it for their jobs. Off course, there's a big difference between jazzing and lying.

For example, let's say you're going for a job that requires you to participate directly in launching new products. Naturally, you'll want to highlight anything in your employment history that translates into such experience. Simply writing Regularly attended new-product meetings doesn't pack much punch. However,  Instrumental in launching new products does, and it's honest if you were truly instrumental.

If you helped to launch only one new product in your entire career, then the statement above is not entirely true. It implies that you launched several new products, which is not the case. Instrumental in launching the widget product is a better way to write it. If you weren't truly instrumental, then Assisted in launching the widget product is more appropriate.

If you've never helped to launch a new product, then any statement on your resume that implies or states that you have, is at least an embellishment if not an outright lie. Sure, all employees do their part to get new products out the door. For example, accountants crunch the numbers and technical writers create user documentation. This is incidental involvement, not direct participation as the statements above imply. It may catch up with you during an interview or worse, on the job unless you know you can talk your way through it and have enough knowledge to come off as sounding legitimate.

Can you get away with claiming more credit then is due you? Yes probably and if you think you can a) back it up and b) get away with it and c) it will help you get the job you want, then go for it.  When you add something to your resume, always remember to consider the risks versus the rewards

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