![]() Read below to explore the potential consequences of lying on a resume and why honesty is the best policy. You should never lie on your resume! Even a small lie can have big consequences, both before and after a potential job offer. This isn’t breaking news.ĭishonesty never ends well, and can quickly spiral out of control.īut telling a little white lie on your resume to help get you the job won’t do that much harm, right? Work on your own to live up to the expectations you set.Lying, generally speaking, is a bad idea. If you’ve claimed a degree that you didn’t have or experience you lack? Make the lie true. Since your employment was fraudulent, your employer’s illegal acts aren’t legally actionable. If you land a job with a competitor after you’ve been fired, and your former employer spreads the truth, you won’t be able to call them on it. In this digital age, it’s easier for you to get caught and the word to spread, especially if you work in an industry or community where the employers know each other. If they fire you, you won’t get a positive reference. Lying on a resume is a breach of trust and a lack of integrity. Or imagine the embarrassment if you’ve claimed to be a manager on a prior job and your former actual shows up, as a vendor, customer or because he’s also hired. Or, you might forget your original lie and say something that doesn’t square with what you said during the recruitment process, leading your new supervisor to ask you a question that forces you to-guess what-lie again. When you lie on your resume, you need to lie each time anyone asks you a question related to your original lie. Or could have happened with the airline pilot who claimed better references than he had to gain a captain position with a commercial airline. Your lack of experience could hurt others, as happened when a former government official falsified his disaster relief experience and botch the response to Hurricane Katrina. Sometimes these employers conduct post-hire reference checks and lose trust when they find out they’ve been defrauded. When those new hires instead splash around, their employers wonder. Because employers expect new hires to arrive with the skills they claim to possess, many employers toss applicants into the new job water, expecting them to swim. While many individuals “enhance” their accomplishments or inflate past job titles or salaries, those who do put the jobs they land and their reputations at risk. Most interviewers, when spotting deception, simply deep-six the application. If an interviewer catches the lie, your chances of landing the job are shot. Now I’m worried about what happens if an employer catches me. I felt that if I didn’t, I’d never land a top job. I’ve been uneasy ever since I read the post you wrote about lying on your resume. Wendy Lalli on Choosing Yourself: When it… Lynne Curry on Choosing Yourself: When it…Įmployers: You Don’t… on Employers: You Don’t Need to B… Susan Dingle on Employers: You Don’t Need to B… Lucinda "Suny" Mille… on Employee Works a 2nd Job and W…ĭan Tucker on Employee Works a 2nd Job and W…Įmployee Works a 2nd… on Remote employee moonlighting:… Susan Dingle on Employee Works a 2nd Job and W… Lynne Curry on Employee Works a 2nd Job and W… The Israel/Hamas Con… on Political Discussions in the W… Lynne Curry on The Israel/Hamas Conflict Rock…ĭan Tucker on The Israel/Hamas Conflict Rock…
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