Written by Not Real | Jan 10, 2017 6:00:00 AM
Good grief, more than half of all candidates LIE on their resume!
A Fortune article reports a study that out of 2,000 people, 58% of the candidates lied on their resume. And over 70% in the financial services industry, by the way. The rather obvious advice by the author of this article is to read resumes carefully. The study showed that prior to the recession only 33% of interviewers took more than 2 minutes to read resumes, and because of rampant lying the figure rose to 42%. Huh?
Less than half of interviewers take more than 2 minutes to read resumes. Additional advice is to compare the resume to LinkedIn profiles. That advice is time consuming if you try to do it internally, and using a resume research company gets expensive and just verifies company names and universities.
The author misses a huge fact: It’s easy for C Players and BSers to write A Player resumes! They know they can get away with fudging the truth because reference checks are perfunctory. Carefully reading resumes of true
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