It has been a couple of months since I posted my last blog imploring job seekers not to lie on their resumes (actually not lying is an even better concept but if I can have some positive impact, no matter how small, I'll feel a little better) but the lying on resumes continues. The number of jobs in the Plastics Industry, where I place candidates, has increase dramatically in the past couple of months (the main reason I have not written a blog for a couple of months). Hiring is also up in most other areas of manufacturing as well. One might think that with the increased pressure companies are experiencing to fill jobs that they would be getting less picky and less stringent in their hiring requirements. Quite the contrary, companies seem to be working harder than ever to fill positions with the best possible people and the companies that I am working with do not consider people who lie the best people.
I lost one placement a few weeks ago when a standard reference check revealed the candidate left previous jobs off of his resume and also stated he was working at a company where he was no longer employed. I lost another placement a week ago when a basic reference check revealed the candidate had not worked for the company that he had listed on his resume as his present employer for several months. He even said he was still working their during the interview (the fact that his address was in a State several hundred miles away may have been a dead give away).
Yet another placement was lost because a candidate stated he had a degree on his resume and when asked where he received it from he said, "Missouri State". Unfortunately, I have an office in Missouri, and most of my family lives there, so I knew there is no Missouri State University or College. The sad part was that he really did not need a degree because the company would have hired him in spite of not having a degree, if he had not lied about having one.
Companies are fighting for top talent and people with strong ethics, even as it seems more and more people believe the end (getting hired) justifies the means (lying). The "End Justifies The Means" did not work for the Communists, and I cannot understand why so many job seekers think it will work for them.
Next.....................Lying on Job Application Forms.
10:05:29 PM 
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