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Resume Padding
More than 90% of college students admit that they would cheat to get a job. With economic insecurity rife in today's jobless recovery, and credentials determining compensation more than ever, resume padding may be accelerating. And in a nation that worships the super successful, even those who have already succeed burnish their CV to climb yet higher.
Stories of Resume Padding
Lying about military records have been a favorite among cheaters, particularly because no one wants to challenge the honor of someone who fought to defend our country.
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Executives at major corporations have been embroiled in scandals recently by misstating earnings, taking kickbacks, and now, lying on their resumes.
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Know someone with a degree from Columbia State University? It's probably a fake, federal authorities say.
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Advanced degrees worth more money
The education earnings gap is big and getting bigger.
Blizzard of lies
A review of 2.6 million job applications
in 2002 revealed 44% containing some lies.
Most common resumes lies:
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How HR experts spot resume lies
Check records, watch body language, note contradictions
Recent Scandals
Bausch & Lomb CEO Ronald Zarella lied about having an MBA for ten years. When the lie was revealed in 2002, Zarella lied again but the company kept him on.
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Kenneth Lonchar was CFO of Veritas Software, a successful Silicon Valley firm -- until it was discovered in 2002 that he had lied about both his Stanford MBA and his undergraduate education.
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Jeffrey Papows was chairman of Lotus, a $1.4 billion subsidiary of IBM. Then it turned out that he compulsively made up facts about his life, including a Ph.D and a black belt.
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Quincy Troupe, former California poet laureate, was well-respected within the California artist and academic community -- until his lies about his college background were exposed.
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Sandra Baldwin, president of the United States Olympic Committee, resigned after it was revealed that she had lied about having a Ph.D in English from Arizona State University.
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George O'Leary was forced to resign five days after being hired as Notre Dame's head football coach due to lies in his resume regarding his education at NYU and his football playing history.
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Joseph Ellis was one of Mount Holyoke's most popular professors, teaching classes about his experiences in Vietnam. Only one problem -- he's never been to Vietnam.
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In 1996, Military hero David Hackworth unmasked the lies of top Navy admiral Jeremy Boorda, who grossly misrepresented his military decorations. Boorda committed suicide. A year later, Hackworth admitted some lies about his own military record.
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