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To Lie or Not to Lie
I work with clients occasionally that ask me to lie, or at least greatly exaggerate items on their resume. Sometimes I see through the lens of untruth – sometimes I don’t. When I see it, I call it. Often in these cases the client asks what harm a little lie will do and I tell them some stories.
1. A tech guy, let us call him Hans lied on his resume about his ability to manage a Storage Area Network (SAN). Well, unfortunately for him and the company that hired him the SAN crashed 2 hours into his new gig. Hans did his best working from manuals, but he made a huge mistake and lost 6 days’ worth of client data – he got fired, he got sued and he got blackballed in the industry.
2. A young woman I worked with said she graduated from Columbia with an MBA, it turns out she was 6 credits short. She was the most qualified candidate, she would have gotten the job in spite of not having the degree, but when they found out she lied she got fired from her dream job.
There have been a few stories that made the press over the last few years – the most notable being – In April 2007 the dean of admissions at MIT, resigned after the university confirmed that she had claimed academic degrees she never earned – yes the person in charge of assessing whether you could come to MIT lied about her educational background.
The fact is more and more employers are doing more diligent background checks. So here is my advice – don’t lie on your resume – ever. You might get caught, you might not – but think about whether or not you would be proud of your kids of they lied. My guess is not so much.