I'll fib a little on some of the details, but nothing that my reference will call me on, or anything that will affect the expectations my new employer has of me when I start.

No way, it is not worth losing out on a great job over a silly lie.

definitely not...

nope. why bother even fibbing?

The only 2 jobs I've applied for / had that required resumes also have extensive background checks. They'll find out if you lie about your SAT scores or your GPA or your club leadership positions.

Plus, when is it ever okay to do something just because "everyone else does it"?

No. All lies comes out eventually, and it's just not worth it.

NO way. I can't think of a surer way to make sure you don't get or keep the job.

No way, not worth it.

Perfect way to NOT get a job...

No, not on my resume!
Sorry, but some way or another it's going to lead to an akward situation at work if you get the job.
Plus, I believe in Karma too!

No one wants to admit it. Haha.

Not a chance.

I've interviewed several applicants that lied. I asked them questions regarding what they say they can do and their answers told me that they really had no idea. Needless to say, they didn't get the job.

I've also worked with people that lied on their resume, believe me, it may not show up right away but it always comes out that they lied.

Why would someone do that? I don't get it. They're almost sure to do fact-checking.

never. bad idea.

Sometimes I wish polls would be yes/no/other instead of reasoning behind the yes and no answers. It's not because of karma and getting caught that I don't do it. It's because I think it's a really dumb idea and I wouldn't even attempt it.

So I guess I'm an other vote.

One day you WILL get caught. You don't know if they hired you based on that white lie. It is not even worth it. I let my personality outshine my resume...

Never have I , or would I lie. There is too much in life to remember, much less what the heck you fudged on a resume! I used to call peoples "references" and sometimes those old bosses would give me a nice earful on how crappy my potential hiree was, do they not think we dont call.

Plus, if you lie on your resume and get caught, now when the next employer calls for your references, that former employer is probably going to share that you lied. So it's not just that one job you'll lose.

Just not worth it.

Nope, a little detail embellishment is cool but flat out lying is not. You never know what may come back and bite you in the booty!

Honeslty, I never have.
And that's the truth.

I was told, by the career services office at school, to leave off my current part time employment at a coffee shop so as to not dilute my legal experience from this past summer. I think that your resume is meant to highlight the things you've done that make you worthy of the job you're applying for, not to list everything you've ever done or every task you've ever completed, and the attorneys at school agreed with me

Leaving out parts isn't lying, it's standard and recommended by both employers and head hunters. You want the experience that applies to job you're trying to get, not all experience. Employers generally don't care that you worked at a pizza parlor part-time during high school to pay your car insurance. They want to know what you've done in relation to the job you're applying for.

That's totally different from lying on a resume.

I had to take off my Masters degree to get a job once. I was desperate for money and had interviewed with several people who were very nasty about my MA and made clear that it was the reason I was not hired. So I removed it. Even then, I barely got hired because I had good grades in undergrad (I was applying for clerical/ editorial/ assistant jobs).

i don't lie. i'm proud of what i accomplished and i think its very exceptional. they probably think i'm lying!

I wouldn't because it's like all those episodes of 'Friends' when Joey's resume lies just blow up in his face! I would NOT want to be put on the spot like that!

I'm a bit confused about the whole resume thing. I am a junior and so recruiters are all over the place trying to recruit juniors, seniors for internship programs this summer. I did fib on my GPA to make it seem like im making the grades by putting down my GPA from my freshmen year...but like im afraid that corp. companies will just throw my resume away if i actually put down my culm. GPA now. it really sucks how companies will just pay attention to GPA rather than look at your work experience. I've spent so many years working in the field of my major but i realize that that won't pay off because i don't have the perfect 3.4 GPA. I don't even know what companies are looking for now? I understand its important to be well-rounded but isn't it more important to have more hands-on experience rather than book smart? You can't just learn how to do accounting based on a textbook...it takes hands-on experience to learn how to acquire skill from the bottom up and team work. oh my, im so confused!! Junior year is so stressful!! ahhhhhhhhhh.

coffeebean... i just graduated in april and I'll tell you why i think employers look hard at gpa for interns and entry level jobs. school is nothing like working in your field so that's how they decide to evaluate if you are a hard worker or not. personally, i didn't have a great gpa when i graduated, so i only put the gpa of the classes in my major, which helped me look better there. i also noted that it was my gpa for my major, not culm. gpa. i also wrote about my school experiences (editor of department paper, secretary of student organization) to focus on hard work, self-starter, leader type things.

I feel like if someone lies on their resumes someone (either the employees, an employee or a recruiter) will figure it out. Lying about your GPA is so easily discovered (via transcripts). I am a recruiter and I know plenty of my clients would prefer an employee who is well rounded and eager rather than a candidate who had a 4.0 in college but has no personality etc. Grades certainly aren't everything and plus- I have never been asked my college GPA at my job..... Lying on a resume just doesn't add up. The gain it not worth the risk!

No need to lie...

I wouldn't lie about GPA or other concrete facts... but some slight embellishments about the duties of your previous work experience seems fairly harmless. After all, "filing, copying, and making coffee" doesn't make for too impressive of a description...

It's never crossed my mind to lie on my resume. Like Greggie said, it's got nothing to do with karma - it's just a bad idea!

If i can't back it up, im certainly not risking it.

Definitely not. I worked really hard for those degrees, GPA and previous job titles-- why would I lie?

Whats the worst that could happen? They fire you? You might not have even gotten the job if you had told the truth. Atleast this way you might get your foot in the door.

Whats the worst that could happen? They fire you? You might not have even gotten the job if you had told the truth. Atleast this way you might get your foot in the door.

The worst that can happen is that you start being unable to look at yourself in the mirror because you realize that you're a liar and a manipulator. Who cares about getting fired? It's about what type of person you are.

Well I don't think a few white lies will haunt you forever. Honestly, I probably wouldn't think twice about it. I have done it before but not about my background or anything. I just might add a few skills that I don't have but would learn once I got in there. But I guess thats just the type of person I am. I don't think that makes you this terrible corrupt person.

The worst that can happen is that it follows you to the next job. And the next. And the next. If you lie on a resume and your prospective employer calls to check on it, now the former employer knows. When they're called for a reference from then on, chances are they're going to say "Oh did she claim she was a supervisor on your application, too? That's what she tried on the last one" because they realize you're untrustworthy and don't want to recommend someone like that.

I don't have a resume. Just a work history.

Well you don't lie when it is that easy to get caught!

I say don't lie on your resume. I lied on my resume about a company I worked at but didn't. I was called in for an interview for a job that I really wanted and was all excited about going to the interview. Until the woman in HR told me that one of the people I would be interviewing with also, previously worked at the company I had lied about. Although the time I stated that I worked there was a different time then when she had worked there. I just don't know how I'm going to pull the whole interview offf. The reason for me lying was I had worked three years at a company that had gone out of business and there was on one who could contest to all the skills and experiences that I had gained while at that company. I wasn't that I lied about the experience just the place of employment.

So I have a friend who I was going to use as a reference who now works at the company I lied and said I worked at. We though it was going to work out but I guess it's not. The interview is today and I'm not sure if I should save myself the embarrassment and not go to the interview or what I should do.