Released: April 23, 2006

Easier than ever to verify resume facts

Source: By David Koeppel, New York Times [San Francisco Chronicle]

Lying on a resume to enhance a mediocre educational or employment record is hardly new. But several recent surveys, as well as anecdotal reports from hiring managers and recruiters, indicate that resume falsehoods are on the rise and are just as likely to come from high-profile chief executives as recent college graduates.

A Brooklyn administrative assistant was recently caught turning a two-day stint as an office temp into an 18-month job as a data entry operator. The fabrication was discovered when the applicant sent her resume to Margaret Johnson, director of operations for MetSchools, an organization that serves children in New York City with special needs.

On her resume, the applicant asserted that from 2000 to 2002 she was employed by Women for Hire, a Manhattan organization that coordinates job fairs around the country - and whose chief executive, coincidentally, is Johnson’s sister-in-law, Tory Johnson.

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