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Lying on the Employment Resume
Kayla Baxter | AdminSecret
September 03, 2009
Ever wanted to just erase your inglorious past as a Denny’s server and forget that unfortunate plate-smashing incident that got you fired?
Have dreams of starting over as an advertising executive at a posh design firm? But you just don’t seem to have any actual advertising experience.
Okay, maybe you’d be more of a success as a chef. After all, you’re a great cook at home! You’ve got that going for you — right? You could get your friend to act as a reference. It’s a great idea! The only thing standing between you and the job of your dreams is your actual job history.
Not anymore.
Enter CareerExcuse.com (also known as CareerCheat.com), a business dedicated to fabricating the perfect job history for the career you’ve always wanted.
They say they will create a company at a real address, complete with letterhead (and reference letters if you’d like), a real phone number, and have operators standing by to pose as your former manager and give you a glowing review. They’ll forward the call from your future employer to the “supervisor” you indicated on your order form and even inform you when they get a call from a potential employer — all for just $64 per year. The rest, CareerExcuse.com says, is up to you.
Sounds too good to be true, right? Always interested in all things career, I contacted the mind behind CareerExcuse.com, William Schmidt. All it took was a simple click on the “Chat Now!” feature of his site.
We settled upon a time for him to call me the next day, and then… he never called, and had refused to give me his contact information. I guess I should have expected as much, but that’s beside the point.
Moral Excuses
To be fair, CareerExcuse isn’t the first company to capitalize on morally questionable behavior. Take fake IDs for example (admit it — you had one), or the show Cheaters. Even Google’s Custom Send option, launched in April 2008, walked the line of truth: You could tell your boss, “But I sent you that email 5 days ago!” and be seemingly correct. To their credit, Google does set a limit to how many times (10, if you’re curious) you can use this morally dubious feature.
So what’s stopping you from creating your very own practically perfect job history? The same thing that probably kept you from cheating in school: fear of getting caught and (worse!) punished. Oh, and you could get in some serious trouble, according to Sally Morin, an attorney in the San Francisco Bay Area.
made76
2 months ago
6 comments
why lie. sooner or later, the person will get caught. it is best to be honest so that you can
be trusted.
jcforbes
2 months ago
2 comments
Great article. I'll bet there are millions of people who are conflcted about putting false or misleading information on their CV's.
JCF
sandbar3000
2 months ago
70 comments
The title of this article is MISLEADING and you should change it. When I opened up my email to see this titile I said, "you GOT to be kidding me?" I thought, "Why in the world would a place such as Admin Secret even THINK of giving us information on how to fake your work history or education?" So, I clicked on the email link and read the article.
It is a wonderful article and provides valuable information for those that are THINKING about lyiing on a resume. I'm glad I read it, but you do need to change the title of it. It makes people think that Admin Secret are FOR lying on resumes -- and that is NOT good business!
If you want people to come to your website, and become members -- you need to think like your constituants. Think like us. It does not look good and it could make people RUN away from your company. Some people would not even take the time to read an article titled, "look here, how to fake your resume, we will give you the tools." And that is what the title says.
joom
2 months ago
2 comments
That the funniest thing I HAVE read. " Financial institutions have a fiduciary responsibility to hiring people who are honest and act with integrity. In this case, because he lied, the bank did not want to take the risk that he did not or would not lie about another matter." IS it not the financial institutions and all there lies and big bonuses that caused the recession where in.?????