sics. This may seem like a minor embellishment but when they test you at the interview or hand you the work to do when you start with them, it won’t be pretty. You will have undermined any trust they had in you. They are likely to wonder what else did you lie about.

Interviews can be stressful enough without the job seeker trying to keep track of their lies. That doesn’t mean you error on the side of mo

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." Albert Einstein.

Wow, I never thought I would see the day when I would be telling Mr. Einstein he was wrong. Well at least he’s wrong when it comes to using your imagination to make claims on your resume. Your resume tells the employer what you have done, not what you would like to do or would have done if you’d only had the chance. Some people call it fudging or inflating what they have done to make themselves more attractive to the employer. I don’t care what you call it, it is lying and it will come back to bite you. One of my clients thought he would save himself a lot of time and trouble by taking a sample resume from a job search book and copy it word for word with the exception of changing the name to his own.

We didn’t question him on it because it didn’t occur to us that someone would tell such a whopper. The resume worked for him because he did get called in for an interview. He phoned me in a blind panic because the interviewer seemed really interested in his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science. Unfortunately for the young man, the fact that he hadn’t even finished high school was going to become glaringly apparent during the actual interview. He left the interview without the job and feeling like an idiot.

By all means, don’t hold back on what you have to offer but keep it grounded in reality. Don’t flaunt a bevy of computer skills if you don’t have them. If you have used a particular computer program or piece of equipment, tell them. Do not claim to be proficient if you know only the basics. This may seem like a minor embellishment but when they test you at the interview or hand you the work to do when you start with them, it won’t be pretty. You will have undermined any trust they had in you. They are likely to wonder what else did you lie about.

Interviews can be stressful enough without the job seeker trying to keep track of their lies. That doesn’t mean you error on the side of mod

if you’d only had the chance. Some people call it fudging or inflating what they have done to make themselves more attractive to the employer. I don’t care what you call it, it is lying and it will come back to bite you. One of my clients thought he would save himself a lot of time and trouble by taking a sample resume from a job search book and copy it word for word with the exception of changing the name to his own.

We didn’t question him on it because it didn’t occur to us that someone would tell such a whopper. The resume worked for him because he did get called in for an interview. He phoned me in a blind panic because the interviewer seemed really interested in his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science. Unfortunately for the young man, the fact that he hadn’t even finished high school was going to become glaringly apparent during the actual interview. He left the interview without the job and feeling like an idiot.

By all means, don’t hold back on what you have to offer but keep it grounded in reality. Don’t flaunt a bevy of computer skills if you don’t have them. If you have used a particular computer program or piece of equipment, tell them. Do not claim to be proficient if you know only the basics. This may seem like a minor embellishment but when they test you at the interview or hand you the work to do when you start with them, it won’t be pretty. You will have undermined any trust they had in you. They are likely to wonder what else did you lie about.

Interviews can be stressful enough without the job seeker trying to keep track of their lies. That doesn’t mean you error on the side of mo

his own.

We didn’t question him on it because it didn’t occur to us that someone would tell such a whopper. The resume worked for him because he did get called in for an interview. He phoned me in a blind panic because the interviewer seemed really interested in his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science. Unfortunately for the young man, the fact that he hadn’t even finished high school was going to become glaringly apparent during the actual interview. He left the interview without the job and feeling like an idiot.

By all means, don’t hold back on what you have to offer but keep it grounded in reality. Don’t flaunt a bevy of computer skills if you don’t have them. If you have used a particular computer program or piece of equipment, tell them. Do not claim to be proficient if you know only the basics. This may seem like a minor embellishment but when they test you at the interview or hand you the work to do when you start with them, it won’t be pretty. You will have undermined any trust they had in you. They are likely to wonder what else did you lie about.

Interviews can be stressful enough without the job seeker trying to keep track of their lies. That doesn’t mean you error on the side of mo

o become glaringly apparent during the actual interview. He left the interview without the job and feeling like an idiot.

By all means, don’t hold back on what you have to offer but keep it grounded in reality. Don’t flaunt a bevy of computer skills if you don’t have them. If you have used a particular computer program or piece of equipment, tell them. Do not claim to be proficient if you know only the basics. This may seem like a minor embellishment but when they test you at the interview or hand you the work to do when you start with them, it won’t be pretty. You will have undermined any trust they had in you. They are likely to wonder what else did you lie about.

Interviews can be stressful enough without the job seeker trying to keep track of their lies. That doesn’t mean you error on the side of mo

sics. This may seem like a minor embellishment but when they test you at the interview or hand you the work to do when you start with them, it won’t be pretty. You will have undermined any trust they had in you. They are likely to wonder what else did you lie about.

Interviews can be stressful enough without the job seeker trying to keep track of their lies. That doesn’t mean you error on the side of modesty either. If you tell the employer that you are familiar with something, it sounds more like you have heard about it rather than actually capable of using it. Make it clear to the person reading your resume exactly what level you are at with it by telling me what you did with it. For example "utilized Lotus in preparing spread sheets used in private placement memorandums and Macintosh to design brochures and flyers." Now the employer can see what kind of skills you possess.

When it comes to your resume honesty is always the best policy.