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Someone saying stretching the truth is dependent on who's saying it and where they're coming from with it. You should always stick with what you know about you and what you did when you write your resume. I went to a place a while back where they were talking about resumes and what they describe in their reasoning is "guesstimate". Now, I consider THAT stretching the truth, but apparently, it's encouraged by experienced professional resume writers. Something like that refers back to my first sentence.
You should never lie on your resume.
If you claim that you were a VP, but you were simply a supervisor, then that is lying.
I know someone who put on their resume, that they were able to save their company X# of $'s, but this was a result of a team effort.
They have never been asked if they were solely responsible for this achievement.
But, your resume is not a legal document!
Most resume's are in part or full of embellishments.
Let's say that your title is "Sr. Widget Inspector."
Unofficially you were a supervisor or maybe a team leader. You were the go-to person in your group, you worked with upper management to help determine when various coworkers should get a promotion or raise, determined and approved vacation schedules for your team to make sure there was coverage, and you interviewed potential new hires, and even made termination reccomendations where appropriate. You technically weren't a manager, but certainly handled a lot of managerial duties. In that case I think it would be OK to not call youself a manager, but to say you "managed this and that for your team" even though you technically were never given the title of "manager."
Stretching the truth? Not really, not at all. The careful wording can really make your resume shine without stating anything that isn't 100% true.
I never write anything that I know can be proven wrong. In this market, you're lucky to even get an interview. So why blow it by putting something false on your resume? We had a guy interview at my company who got busted doing that. He had a background in accounting, but not a degree in it. On his resume, he listed his major as accounting. Oops. They checked.
There is no shame in promoting yourself to the stars. Make it sound like you hung the moon.
The problem exists if you say you can do something that you cannot/have not. Then when the time comes for you to do it. You're stuck.
Only lie about things that you can do and do well. LOL
20yrsinBranson
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