Executives: Making It by Faking It
Wisconsin headhunter Jude Werra's "Liars Index" of faked résumé claims hit a five-year high in the first half of 2007
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At least once or twice a year, business people the world over are reminded of the high cost of a little exaggeration, a material omission, or an outright lie on a résumé and how a tangled web concerning one's background can lead to career catastrophe.
Consider the case of the MIT dean whose career track was halted when her employer realized that she hadn't graduated from a single one of the three institutions from which she had claimed to have earned degrees. Or any one of a string of business executives who learned the hard way that faking their way is no way of making their way into executive management.