2006/06/04

Resume and lies

As someone looking for job in L.A. area, I found the Wired article "Lies, Damned Lies and Resumes" funny. I also like their pointer to Forbes' list of resume lies.

I believe that using the right terms to get past the screeners is worth fiddling with [they now use search engines on resume so that they can weed out non matching ones quickly], but lies or stretching the truth will always be found out eventually and isn't worth getting fired over.