Have you ever stretched the truth on your resume?

i have always been truthful about my resume and have never put fake information on there for any reason. I know that it could come back and bite me or someone else if they falsified their resume. There is always a way to find out if they are telling the truth or not. I think now a days companies are more careful about who they hire and check things out more carefully. Another thing I know people do is put down people as references even though they did not get the persons permission to put them down. If a person gets hired and later it is found out they lied on their resume or application, they can be fired.

No I don't think its right to doctor a resume as tyruth will come out soonewr or later, what if you write about somethings that you know about but actually know nothing wont it reflect in the interview. I am doing software programming and people in my batch cheat and get a good score, but only thing is I feel once these kids go for the interview truth will come out. A person with a score of 89% in Java if wont be able to answer a simple prgramming stuff wont the interviewer come to know. I am 35 now so I have very few chance of getting job as I have not worked anywhere before, still I feel if I get a call may be employer will look at my abilities and not my age. A a recruiter what do you weigh more-age or actual ability of the person.

I haven´t made more out of me in my resume than what I am - however intervues can be nerv-recking and can make people stammer even though they are telling the truth... also they might get nervous over the fact that u make it obvious that u think it is fake... Just my point of wiev

i will admit that i have fudge the truth a little on my resume. not off the wall fudge, but a little bit fudge. LOL nothing that would make someone say oh please she didn't do that

Everyone, myself included, looks better on paper than in reality. I believe all resumes are stretched but to what degree varies. It is hard to decipher some of hidden meanings on a resume. I have been hiring people for over 15 years and it is getting harder to see people's true self in their resumes. Some are almost fictional.

If all resumes are perfect, then all candidates are qualified for the job. What this society needs is to change the way of hiring people. Sometimes those who dont have the right qualifications could be the gems for the company.

i always turn in a very simple but factual resume. i don't believe in stretching truths just for the possibility of getting in because in the event i'd be accepted, i wouldn't feel comfortable in the thought that i was hired because of the "stretched truths" i put in my resume. i don't even stretch the truth about my height. lol!

I personally have never exaggerated anything on my resume, but like you, I have come across many that did seem too good to be true. In the interviews, I always asked them for specific behaviors and examples that they eluded to on their resume, and asked them to elaborate about how they handled a specific situation. More often than not, I was right, and it wasn't actually something they had done themselves.

I actually started a discussion on this, too. I took a resume writing class and was taught how to use better wording, but it is not the same as lying or stretching the truth. I would explain my qualifications further in an interview. I have found that employers are very serious about their qualifications and really want you to have that particular skill. If you get the job and can't do it, it would cause you great trouble with getting other jobs.

I have known of friends who doctored their resume. I guess they did that for the fear of not getting a job. I asked myself this question many times. I have lost job opportunities just because some others have better resume than mine. Is it worthwhile to doctored my own resume just to get a job? I could not come to do so and have never done so. I am proud of this even though I did missed a few wonderful opportunities. It never really matters. What mattered most is my integrity.

No, I don't remember I've ever padded my resume. The only problem I guess was the dates, like when did you finish that, this, history of employment etc etc. I'm not sure I have supplied the exact dates but other than that, nothing have been doctored.

I haven't yet done it because I haven't yet put together a resume. I do feel that it's wrong to embellish or outright lie - however, I wonder too what I'm going to do when the need arises for me to _have_ a resume, since I have yet to have a real job. I've done lots of work online, but nothing that required me to have a job application or a resume put together. I hope that there is some kind soul out there that will employ me, since I'm a bit older than most people entering the job market, and I'm still not ready since I still have a lot of shyness issues to work on and am just really getting started. So I can see all of this leading me to want to embellish. But I hope that i never do it.

No, I have never embellished or stretched the truth or lied in any way, shape or form on my resume. To me it's not worth the risk. I would be so nervous during the interview that I would feel like they KNOW that I did, and it's not worth the stress, nor wondering about getting caught. My mom's 1st cousin years ago flat out lied on her resume and got hired by the government. Now, how sad is that?!?

no i havnt done that yet. i think honesty is the best policy. i dnt know how people manage to handle their intervw questions related to the lies mentioned in their resumes.

No, I haven´t, because when you get chosen for an interview, either you´ve got to have learnt your resume including the "too perfect" bits by heart or you sit there stammering. The first option won´t get you the job and the second one might, but once working your lack of knowledge will soon show that you´ve touched up your resume. Both things embarrassing.

i havent really stretched the truth, but i guess made the truth seem a bit more shining. i guess i dont really know what my language abilities are. like i can say that im fluent in so and so language, but ive never been tested, so i am just guessing on my language ability. i guess that might be stretching the truth because i dont have a certification telling me what my ability is, but im doing it unknowingly if its not true!

I wouldn't stretch the truth on my resume. That is a bad way to start with a company especially someone you are hoping will hire and trust you to work honestly for them. Nope not for me. I would not feel comfortable doing that and I don't have a poker face so I wouldn't be able to hide the lie.

yes i have. recently, but little things like how long i've worked at a job or on my references, using personal instead of business things like that. and no i dont see it to be wrong if you feel you have the experience to do the job. and yes i do hope they will only glance over it and check fo my experience.

left out how my last job ended in tears yes but things have to be done, i am not proud but ...

I think most probably have streched the truth alittle.. I haven't done it by alot but maybe I've added a couple extra years experience to something.. Expecially if I know I can do a job. I would never lie about something that my possibly come back to bit me.. like saying I can run a bulldozer on a job and having no experience.. that would be stupid...lol