Should You Lie On Your Resume?

Should you lie on your resume? Being dishonest on a job application is never advisable. But are there situations where you should consider lying to give yourself an advantage? In this video we'll talk about some cases where you may or may not want to consider bending the truth.
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2:47 Job titles
4:41 Your company
6:41 Location
8:57 Dates of employment
10:42 Basic skills
12:42 Why you left
14:42 What NOT to lie about
16:28 References
17:35 Dates of employment (yup!)
18:23 Advanced Skills
18:58 Education
19:29 Criminal Record
20:08 Experience
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[SpiritWarrior]

Because I was honest, I was without a job for several years. Once I finally got hired and got access to resumes of other employees, I realized all of them had bald face lies and they kept their job longer than me for a higher pay. Morale of the story? Good guys finish last.

[lillones]

Job recruiter:
"I can lie to you about this job, but you cant lie to me about your job experience"

[sierra]

I was one of a dozen candidates up for a particular job. During the second interview, the person asked me why I didn't "embellish" my resume to make myself stand out from the others. I thought he would like the fact that I was being honest with him. He told me all it did was put me on the bottom of the pile. Apparently, now you get punished for not lying.

[nicholasspellman]

Better to lie on resume than tell the truth in the unemployment line.

[justinoleary]

I have lied my ass off my entire career and would not be where I am today without lying. I’m as honest as every company has been with me

[Gachastan]

If you lie - you won't get the job, if you don't lie - you won't even get into interview XD. It sucks to be alive.

[alwayslearningtech]

I've run my own business.

The resume decides who gets in the door, once they're in the door, the resume doesn't matter much at all and it's all personality. Changing your job title to something that's actually accurate to what you did or are capable of, instead of what you were called in your previous role is actually more honest.

[iAlwaysSpeakTheTruth]

Considering employers lie left and right. Yeah, I do. But I’m a great worker. Do I enjoy lying? No, but when you have to because you need to keep a roof over your head, yeah I’m going to do it. It’s a 2 way street, until employers stop lying and making unrealistic expectations, I will continue to be the same equivalent.

[henryk.]

How did we get to this point, where people would consider lying in their CV’s? That is the real question.

Nowadays, we have entry level jobs, paying near minimum wage, requiring advanced degrees.

[esued]

Job application takes 1.5 hours to fill out. Recruiter takes 5 seconds to look at your resume to throw it out.

[anastasiab]

Considering how much and how often companies lie to their potential employees, I think it is not a problem to embellish parts of your resume.

[joemomma]

I will treat the companies the way they treat workers. Like mushrooms. Feed em crap and keep em in the dark.

[Garowen]

TLDR: 95% of job searches today are people are in a very difficult job search and aren't having any luck So they should be lying on their resume.

[pey]

When I was just a wee undergraduate student, I had done a database project as part of my part time job entirely in google sheets. I had no experience in actually building relational databases like MySQL. I wanted to apply to a summer internship, but many of them required experience in relational databases like MySQL. I knew that in the right environment, I had the skills to quickly adapt and learn the skills that I needed to perform well at my job. I put that I used MySQL for the database project and landed the internship. Over those 3 months of interning, I probably learned more than I had in a year's worth of taking classes. I came out of that internship fully confident in MySQL and my programming skills and proceeded to land a high paying career job out of school. If I hadn't given that small lie on my resume initially, I likely wouldve never been considered for the internship opportunity.

[SkyCardis]

"Honestly is the best policy"
"Well yes, but actually no"

[pseguin]

People who are afraid to lie on a resume are also people who can't understand why they have been stuck in the same position for the last 5 years.

[triopsate]

My personal opinion on lying on the resume is that you should never be a complete idiot about it and do what good liars do. In other words, don't lie about things that are easy to disprove, mix the lies in with the truth, make sure to keep your lies consistent and not to trip up while lying and finally to spend more than 3 minutes thinking up a lie in order to flesh out your lie.

[Metruzanca]

I have a feeling this "Big Youtuber" is our good friend Joshua Fluke.

[kaym]

Sometimes the stuff they (HR and the hiring managers) put on the job description...I just roll my eyes at. I’ve been in positions where the job description was more fluff than anything.

[KCFlyer]

I'm 65 and retired after 30 years it IT. I learned a lot on the job and I was able to "self teach" on a lot of things. But so many jobs require a degree that I wouldn't get a second look. And today they use "resume bots" to look for their keywords. Back in 1988 I got a job because the boss (best boss I ever had) wanted me to write a quick report for him. He gave me the record layouts and left me alone. I was done in just a few minutes. I got the job because I showed him I knew what they wanted. Today I couldn't get an interview because of a lack of a degree