These are the most common things people lie about on their resumes

These are the most common things people lie about on their resumesThese are the most common things people lie about on their resumesSometimes, resumes have to be massaged. Tweaked to fit the job listing. Walked back a little. But none of tooling around is a lie, right? As it turns out, only 5% of all people said theyd song on their resumes but Millennials do it twice as much as anyone else. In that category, 11% of adults ages 25-34 admitted to lying on their resumes at least once.GOBankingRates conducted a surveycarried out by ConsumerTrack Inc. of 1,003 people to ask them if and why they lied on their resumes.Follow Ladders on FlipboardFollow Ladders magazines on Flipboard covering Happiness, Productivity, Job Satisfaction, Neuroscience, and moreOf the 5%, of course, it depends on what one does and doesnt call a lie. An embellishment of start dates? A slight brush-up on skills? Still, of the 5% of liars, half had lied on their resume before.An additional 9% had never lied, but h ad considered the proposition. Generation Z welches the most tempted, at 14%.Jenny Foss, a job search strategist, told GoBankingRates, Its rare that I encounter someone who completely fabricates something on their resume. Foss said that truth-stretching which is not exactly a lie, but still sort of is was more commonplace.The most common things to lie about on a resumeWork experience 38%Dates of employment 31%Job title at previous role 16%References 15%College education 11%Responsibilities at previous role 7%Its true when it comes to working experience, sometimes ones familiarity with Google Analytics must be strrreeetched a bit, a job history altered to fit the circumstances. Interestingly, men lied about this much more than women, at 46% and 31%, respectively.And no one likes long gaps in employment. When it came to employment dates, women lied far more than men 41% to 19%, respectively.All jokes aside, history is littered with many big shots whose fall from grace was that they lied on their resumes some of them for decades, and over basic details costing them their jobs. Ex-Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson, who said he had a computer science and accounting degree, lost his job when it came to light that he only had the accounting degree. No one cares that he only had an accounting degree, just that he lied.In 2014, Wal-Marts top spokesman was forced to resign over an old lie on his resume that said he had a bachelors degree from the University of Delaware when he actually hadnt finished enough coursework to graduate. This lie was discovered during a background check while he was up for a promotion.Marilee Jones, the dean of admissions at MIT from 1997 to 2007, told one heck of a whopper for 28 years she stated she had three degrees when in fact, she had zero. She was found out through an anonymous tip and had to leave as a result.And even more embarrassingly, celebrity chef Robert Irvine lied about designing Prince Charles and Princess Dianas wedding cake. As a result, he was fired from his own show on the Food Networks Diner Impossible. He had only picked fruit for the cake.Perhaps those bigwigs could all relate to the following chartYou might also enjoyNew neuroscience reveals 4 rituals that will make you happyStrangers know your social class in the first seven words you say, study finds10 lessons from Benjamin Franklins daily schedule that will double your productivityThe worst mistakes you can make in an interview, according to 12 CEOs10 habits of mentally strong people