Lying Out Loud, for Crying Out Loud

One of the necessary evils of this business is occasionally dealing with people who lie.

The amusing, or maybe bemusing, part, is that many of them do a really poor job of it.

I run across resumes several times a year from people who I've seen resumes from before, who have gone to work for a new company, and been fired or laid off in a short period, and who subsequently delete that company from their resume after having listed it before. Sometimes they'll adjust the dates of the preceding and subsequent positions to cover up the gap.

People do this on their Linked In profiles sometimes too. I guess these folks figure others have such short memories that they'll never notice. Perhaps they forget that technology these days stores emails, files, etc, like Google cache, or selecting the 'show all dates' parameter in a resume database that you can frequently recall info from a year or two back quite easily.

Not to mention that your references, and colleagues, will frequently mention that they knew you at 'Company A', then you went to 'Company B', and now you're at 'Company C'. But 'Company B' appears nowhere on your resume?

Remember: "Tell the truth, it's easier to remember".