We all know that you absolutely, without an exception, you cannot lie on your resume. And if you've ever been tempted to insert a falsehood
into your résumé to make you sound more qualified, you're far from alone. More than half of résumés contain lies. Although, more often than not, a dishonest resume is not an outright lie but a truth stretched too far. Just in case you’re thinking about fibbing on your resume, we're going to step back from moralizing and offer you some
action points.

Souce:
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1.Faking Skills
Our world is changing everyday and we don’t always know everything. A lot of the time you just don’t have the right qualifications for a job. I don’t like to take no for an answer. I think lying
about skills on resume is acceptable. It is so easy to learn something
nowadays. If a job requires basic HTML, put it on your résumé and head to Code Academy and
learn it. If they ask for basic Photoshop skills,
just read some tutorials, or watch a few YouTube
videos and play with the program. It will take
you a few days to master the basics but just
playing you’ll learn the ins and outs of it. If you
need any skill, Google is your best friend/
teacher.Why would you waste an opportunity if
you can learn something within a few days. My
father signed many PR contracts before he even
started a PR firm. Of course, you can’t tell
people that you know 7 languages and don’t
bother to study them. There is a big difference
between a little lie and a big one. If you put it in
your résumé, you should be able to do it.
What you can fake are more random, fun skills
that make you look interesting. If you’re
applying for an accounting job, it probably won’t
hurt if the hiring manager thinks you speak
Swahili and have written an unpublished novel
about medieval weaponry.

2. Faking Job Experience The "Work Experience" section forms the bulk of most resumes, and with good reason. For HR purposes, past performance is far and away the most likely indicator of future success, and it's here that hiring managers will look to see if you have what it takes to fulfill the role of waitress, or sales manager, or CEO of Yahoo! When doctoring this section of the resume, you obviously want to paint yourself as the ideal candidate the hiring manager is looking for. But also consider how likely it is that your lie will be uncovered. Hiring managers are most likely to investigate the most important and the most recent jobs, so keep your fabrications minimal there. Save your most creative stuff for the older entries; hiring managers understand it's often not possible to get references for things that happened a decade or more earlier.

3. Faking Your Work History Whether you have a short or long work history, you don't necessarily want to include all of it. If you're applying for a marketing position and you've worked as an intern and an associate in separate firms, but also as a cashier at a grocery store, don't pad your resume with the irrelevant job. Doing so wastes space that you can instead use to explain the good work you did at the actually relevant jobs. Conversely, you may want to leave off jobs (and other information) that make you look overqualified. You don't need an MFA to work in telesales or Vice President position to get a job as a programmer. Part of putting your best foot forward on your resume involves leaving out the stuff that makes you look wrong for the position, no matter how impressive.

4. Faking References References are really just a formalized part of the recruiting process. Unless there is significant competition of finalist candidates for a job, the references portion of the hiring isn’t all that important. You’d be stupid to put down someone you’re not confident will speak highly of you. So when your references are lower level managers or even coworkers, it doesn’t inspire confidence. In this scenario, you’d be much better served by choosing a friend you worked with, embellishing his or her title, and then informing this person he or she will need to put on a bit of an act for the person calling. This tends to work much better than putting down your direct supervisor, who may have a weenie- ass job title. Unless you’re interviewing for upper management, no one is going to put in the legwork to make sure the reference holds the position you say he or she does.

5. Faking Degree Having a certain education is often a minimum requirement for most job postings. That degree is typically the first thing a hiring manager will look for, even if only a tiny fraction of the degree is actually useful to that job, and even if that tiny fraction was forgotten. Just don’t lie about having a Ph.D., an MBA, or an actual bachelor’s degree, and you’re in like flint. Don’t have your degree? Just pop “undergraduate studies in [insert degree field here]” and no one will bat an eyelash. Just get yourself in a room with a decision maker. Lying might get you what you want in the short term, but it also might take a toll in the long run. First, there’s the anxiety that comes from lying and worrying that you’ll be discovered. Then, there’s the fact that lying about who you are and what you want might land you a job that doesn’t suit you well at all. Back

You may change your point of view after taking a look at below data:

A recent research asked 2188 human resources specialists, which shows us that candidates have tendency to exaggerate about their skills and experience in CV.

In addition, there are 58% of recruiters have met at least a dishonest data. Besides, 1/3 of them (33%) said they started seeing the “make up” the truth phenomenon in CV from after crisis.

All the lies could make your resume stand out in the crowd, it is, but in a negative meaning.

The research shows that there are 51% employers frankly said that they would completely ignore a “fake” CV right away, 40% said it would depend on what they were lying, and only 7% would continue to check the resume if they liked that candidate, which can be explained by they think it was a mistake in writing, not on purpose.

Source: http://vnmanpower.com/en/the-obvious-lies-in-the-resume-what-are-recruiters-going-to-do-bl63.html

vnlabor:
You may change your point of view after taking a look at below data:

A recent research asked 2188 human resources specialists, which shows us that candidates have tendency to exaggerate about their skills and experience in CV.

In addition, there are 58% of recruiters have met at least a dishonest data. Besides, 1/3 of them (33%) said they started seeing the “make up” the truth phenomenon in CV from after crisis.

That's why I said you should venture to at least know a thing or two about the things u're making up