Is it illegal to lie on your resume?

Question

relax, i'm just wondering...

Answer 1

Not illegal, it's dishonest. If a prospective company finds out, they will probably not hire you based on the lie.

Answer 2

It doesn't break the law - you can't be sent to jail for it. But like all lies, it breaks the trust people have in you, which can have absolutely terrible consequences.

Let's say you lie about having some experience doing something, then in your job you are asked to do that thing and you can't. How bad do you look? Pretty bad...

Let's say you lie about having a degree to get a job that requires one. No big deal, you say, since you really do know what you need to know for the job. Years go by, and you are wildly successful in your job. You love your work and you are up for a big BIG promotion. Someone discovers you lied on your resume years ago, and that big job is withdrawn, and you are fired. How bad would that be? Just awful...

Let's say you lied about your service in the National Guard, and years later, you are President of the United States, and...oh, yeah, nothing happens.

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Answer 3

i will answer accordingly to the law applied in the country I am from....
technically it is illegal as long as a you generate or cause any type of harm by doing so and it is considered as forgery in a private document... in another scenario, if you lie in your resume and you are hired greatly because of the lie and you work for more than a year, you would be unlawfully terminated or fired if your employer later discovered such lie.
in the states, most likely it is a crime since everything there is so.

Answer 4

Freedom of speech. You can lie all you want. You will only get into trouble if you lie about such things as accrediations or degrees and then get a job under those false pretenses and they later found out you lied. Then you could be looking at jail time. Basically its not illegal less you get caught.

Answer 5

I guess not, but by doing this the only one you're fooling around is yourself, because:
1. if you write in your CV that you're able to do something when you're not, your boss will understand easily you lied, so he'd fire you instantly
2.as a consequence, you might be marked as a liar for all others employers, and then what??

My way of approaching a thing they ask me to do but I don't know how, is this: say I don't know how to do it, but I have the brain, the skills and the will to learn it FAST....it works better than a lie, because it's HONEST and shows your interest for your job.

Answer 6

If the job application asks have you committed a crime or felony and if you say no on that part and the person has a big criminal record for charges like drugs, threats, assault, in possession of something illegal or anything like that. Can they fire you for that? Just curious because I've heard of people doing that.

Answer 7

They say that about 80% of all people lie on their resume, scary!


Personally i cant understand why people lie because by lying you obligate yourself do to something which either you and can or hate to do.

Answer 8

It's certainly unethical. Probably illegal if you're specifically asked and there are consequences for lying (like working for the government or something).

Answer 9

Yes, it is, because you sign your resume. Don't mention anything in your resume which you would not be able to substantiate.

Answer 10

Always put the truth on your resume. so that the person concern will consider you as liar