RE: Even the CEO of Monster lies on his resume

["Samuel Choy" <schoy -at- us -dot- ibm -dot- com>]

Bruce writes:

Apparently, more and more people are doing this on their resumes. Usually
it's exaggeration of experience or duties. It's the really corrupt ones,
that go and add fictitious degrees onto their resumes. I would guess that
there is an attitude out there, that HR departments are so over-worked that
no one will check; and that the more brilliant you appear, the money you
can
ask for.
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An IT manager at a previous employer once bragged to me (though he was
probably exaggerating) that if he ever read the packaging for a software
product, he put it on his resume.

Hmm...perhaps if HR departments are going be more careful about researching
resumes I should remove the title, "Founder of modern technical writing"
from my resume ; - )

Samuel Choy
IBM Rochester

http://www.ibm.com/eserver/iseries/infocenter





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