Resume Padding
We all fudge the facts sometimes.
Resume padding. Discovering the lie after the fact after hiring causes. Small Lies Big Trouble. Kidwell Jr 12 Journal of Business Ethics volume 51.
Other Resume Padding Problems. Now and then we hear a news story about people padding their resumes and once in a while we hear a story about some industry or civic leader who is compelled to resign their position. January 30 2006 By Dennis Chaptman.
Its just like driving 5 or 10 miles over the speed limit. Resume padding means adding false or exaggerated information to your resume to enhance your credentials for a job. Fudging the facts on a resume is one of the most common ways people stretch the truth with the view to get the job.
Second resume-padding exists within the broader context of young peoples lives. These illustrative cases should serve as ethical examples to remind us that lying on your resume is huge no-no. Im sorry to hear that -- resume padding seems to be an increasingly common problem in testing these days.
Its a popular notion that everyone embellishes their resume to some extent. Though padding a resume may not seem like such a big deal to some resume padding is in fact a breach of ethics. Involves spinning remedial job responsibilities as key managerial roles single-day volunteer experiences as transformational accomplishments and web sites.
Although the rates of volunteerism among high schoolers appear to be healthy a study by a UWMadison researcher suggests that resume-padding. But your resume is your word and its now effortless for employers to verify every word. From how big the fish we caught was to how old we are.