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“Getting Wise to Lies: Alarmed about the prevalence of resume padding, employers are turning fib detection into an industry”

Filed under Resumes and Cover Letters
Posted by Libraries, May 30, 2006
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Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, Time, 5/1/2006, Vol. 167, Issue 18, pp. 59-59.

Some call it “impression management,” while others refer to it as “lying” or “fibbing,” but apparently quite a few job seekers are not telling the truth on their resumes. Since this can cause problems for a business who hires them, a $2 billion third-party industry has sprouted to detect such fraud. Still, “many bosses feel that a worker’s track record on the job speaks more strongly than a stretched resume,” says John Challenger of the outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, who suggests an amnesty period.

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