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A guy worked for my employer in IT and turned in a pretty fictitious resume, including working at either West Point or the Naval Academy (I don't remember which one anymore). After this hotshot couldn't perform tasks that he should easily have been able to do, they decided to actually check out his resume and discovered that it was bogus. They learned a lesson the hard way, and left everyone else wondering how they could make a hire like that without doing a background check.
I've known people who had huge gaps in their resume because of the deep recession that began in 2008. So, they put a fake job on their resume and the company never checked their "current" employer. I've also known people who have friends that own their own small business and have used their company as their latest job to avoid the job gap issue.
I heard some pretty good explanations for big gaps in employment and then why they could not leave the state for work.
Wrong answer: elderly relatives
Correct answer: Parole officer
Newsflash. As employers you receive all sorts of forms from all sorts of government agencies. Employers do find out in the end! Depending on the job it may not of mattered but lying upfront did.
So, that's what employers are worried about? That you have a job gap because you were in prison? Oh, please. They'd better get on the stick then because I know several people who have been unemployed for 6 months or longer who had damn good jobs before and were never incarcerated. I also know people who were incarcerated and were able to start their own business and are doing better than most.
I was once working at a temp job through an agency checking a large health care company's contracts. Not for content but just for like typos and english. After a few months I got a job and was looking at an applicant resume.
The person applying had listed that he had his own business for two years. He was a "consultant" as one of his "jobs" he wrote that he was a consultant for this health care company reviewing their contracts - from the exact same time period I was there. He didn't mention the temp company and he made it sound like he was checking the contracts for content. But I recognized the job and checked it out. Yes.. he was a temporary employee working for a temp agency doing the same job I did. He had no contact with the heath carrier he was hired as a temp.
We had him in and confronted him. All the "clients" he had listed had been from a temp agency. He claimed up and down there was nothing wrong with what he did.
I have never done this. From what I have been reading, it is quite common, which makes me wonder how many opportunities I have missed out on because someone's fictitious resume is better than my real one.
Never involve with this, and never would try to lie on a resume because is easily verifiable. Just do the right thing and you will be just fine. There's no need to get caught on something stupid like this.
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