Written by Josh Weiss-Roessler

Even though things seem to be slowly improving, our job market is—to put it mildly—not good. Many job seekers have been scrounging and scraping and clawing around for work for far longer than normal, and that kind of desperation sometimes makes people engage in behaviors they likely wouldn’t consider in better times.

Everyone isn’t as truthful as they always want to be – and resumes are one of the most common places for lies to show up. This infographic (source) shows some of the most common things that job seekers lie about or otherwise misrepresent on their resume or CV.

Takeaways

• 46% of resumes submitted by job applicants contain some form of false information – with 70% of college students saying they would lie on their resume in order to get a job.
• 27% of applicants give false references on a resume, whereas 40% give inflated salary claims.
• 21% of applicants state fraudulent degrees on resumes.
• 74% of respondents said they had never lied on a resume (are they lying?) – but 13% said they hadn’t but would consider it.

Originally published by: Laurence Hebberd

Laurence Hebberd is Community Manager for Link Humans in London. He also runs the Link Humans Twitter feed - @LinkHumans.