DON'T LIE IF YOU'RE TRYING TO GET A JOB IN SALES MANAGEMENT!
According to a report cited in USA Today, 72 percent of people who fibbed were in this field. True, employers probably expect it more and will be less likely to look down on you for stretching the truth, but this is your character we're talking about!
DON'T LIE ABOUT YOUR PAST JOB PERFORMANCE AND PAY HISTORY!
According to a Los Angeles Times study, this is the sort of thing that most people fudge because it's almost impossible to check. Lawsuit-wary companies are afraid to give a bad recommendation about former workers or reveal what they earned. Whew! Aren't you glad you know?
DON'T FUDGE THE STARTING AND ENDING OATES OF PAST JOBS!
This is often used to disguise that you took two months off to be a barfly and to make you look instead like the hard worker you know you can be. Though this cover-up rarely causes a blip on a personnel director's radar, what will your kids think?
DON'T FAKE EDUCATIONAL DEGREES FOR AN ENTRY·LEVEL PROFESSIONAL POSITION THROUGH A TEMP AGENCY!
One guy-we'll call him Tom-got away with this heinous falsehood and landed a high-paying job as a paralegal in a large New York City law firm. "It was horrible," Tom said. "No one checked that sort of thing at the agency, and the firm didn't either. Also, I said I'd graduated from a state college a friend of mine had attended, so he gave me a few tidbits about life on campus just in case the subject came up in conversation at the job. I got away with it clean, and made much more money than I should have. Don't make my mistake."
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Liar's Poker: Acing the Resume
It's a sad fact that many people feel as if they have to pad their resumes with overly hyped and erroneous information in order to get a job. We'd never tell you to do this. In fact we'd like to advise you in great detail, exactly how to avoid this road to easy wealth and moral turpitude. Your soul depends on it!
