Another embellished resume survey is out from CareerBuilder. I assumed educational background was the most common lie, but that is not so according to their survey.<\/p>\n
Stretched dates to cover up employment gaps is the most commonly-caught resume lie<\/strong>, with nearly one-in-five hiring managers saying they have found this on a candidates application. Other top resume lies include: <\/p>\n
Past employers (18%)<\/li>\n Academic degrees and institutions (16%)<\/li>\n Technical skills and certifications (15%)<\/li>\n Accomplishments (8%)<\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n As naive as it sounds, it would be a pleasant surprise to see a downward trend in the percentage of resumes with distortions in them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Another embellished resume survey is out from CareerBuilder. I assumed educational background was the most common lie, but that is not so according to their survey. Stretched dates to cover up employment gaps is the most commonly-caught resume lie, with nearly one-in-five hiring managers saying they have found this on a candidates application. Other top resume lies include: Past employers (18%) Academic degrees and institutions (16%) Technical skills and certifications (15%) Accomplishments (8%) As naive as it sounds, it would be a pleasant surprise to see a downward trend in the percentage of resumes with distortions in them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resumes","category-trends"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-6g","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":397,"url":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/10\/wait-until-you-see-their-resume\/","url_meta":{"origin":388,"position":0},"title":"Wait Until You See Their Resume","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"October 27, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Survey: M.B.A.s Are The Biggest Cheaters. 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