Hopefully the new 'truthful' one is going to perform better. The bloody thing didn't land me a single gig in over 5 years. Well, for starters, my old resume is in the bin. It’s just that the fuckers didn’t buy ‘em! I can also attest to the fact that I have indeed written scripts for many of the world’s biggest clients. Yes, 74 of my 79 awards are from those ‘everyone gets a prize’ ad festivals people boast about on Linkedin, but hey, a win’s a win. (Even without deathcaps.)Īnd I’m keeping that bit about being a multi-award-winning copywriter. My topspin backhand improved leaps and bounds during these times and I also mastered a killer beef wellington recipe.

I’m going to stand by my statement that I used the downtime between jobs to improve my skillset. Still Saatchis, Jim, but not as we know it. It’s just I’m now Triassic as opposed to Jurassic.Īnd whilst it is true I've been an ECD at some of the world’s biggest name agencies, (Saatchis, BBDO, LB etc), I wasn’t actually in the main offices but in the more eh. This doesn’t make much difference in the grand scheme of thing, as both groups are viewed as dinosaurs by our industry. I’m not actually in my mid 40s as my cv implies.

So now we have established that there is a scale, with acceptable ‘white lies’ at one end and verboten whoppers at the other, all that remains is for me is to apply it to my resume. This behaviour is viewed with moral outrage and condemned in the strongest possible terms. Here we find people fabricating jobs, manufacturing grandiose titles and claiming awards and accolades they didn’t win. Little deceptions we indulgently overlook because, well, because everyone does it.īut now we move into the territory where little white lies become big black ones. Bigging up your achievements or overstating your contribution to a company’s success.Īll the above are, for the most part, regarded as white lies. Then, of course, there’s self-aggrandisement. This involves fudging timelines to cover awkward gaps and present an unbroken line of employment from first lemonade stand to right now. Moving on with our list of things that make baby Jesus cry, we come to date deception. Leaving out information (lengthy gaps between gigs or multiple jobs of short duration,) that detracts from the impression of godlike omnipotence you are trying to convey. Well, at its most benign, it can involve something as relatively innocuous as the sin of omission. So, what exactly does lying on a resume look like? That doesn’t mean the other 28% don’t lie. In a recent LinkedIn Survey, 72% of people admitted to lying on their resume.

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