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Originally Posted by KC911

Was reading on CNBC about this ..... lying or embellishing.

In my career, lying on one's resume, if discovered would have meant an immediate, "walk you to the door" dismissal. No further questions asked. Embellishing might be a grey area ..... but lying about one's education or former places of employment.... yer gone !

How about you guys? Has the world changed and I missed it?

Nope, lies wouldn't be tolerated, and you certainly won't get hired.

Originally Posted by Scott Douglas

I don't understand how you can 'embellish' without it being a 'lie'.

Kind of what cstreit is talking about, "I did XYZ," but it really turns out that you were part of a team or on a project where XYZ was done, and you had a part, but it was just a part (and often a tiny or insignificant part).

Originally Posted by cstreit

I'm guessing a large majority of resume's have some level of embellishment in them.

I see it all the time in sales. Person claims they contributed $5M in sales revenue. What they were was part of a team of people that generated that.

Depending on how you interpret "contribute' it is either accurate or embellishment.

Yep, in my world (IT) I've seen resumes that looked like the index or glossary of a technical manual. Yeah, the guy could spell all of the stuff and was aware of it, but certainly wasn't an expert or even very conversant. At the same time, I kind of feel like companies are asking for it. I've seen plenty of job reqs advertised asking for experience in the entire index or glossary of a technical manual. I really laugh when at the end the salary is listed, and it's an entry level salary.