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Are Your Candidates Lying to Get the Job?


rss.shrm.org | Katie Navarra

​In a recent interview, Trent Griffin-Braaf, president of Tech Valley Shuttle in Cohoes, N.Y., discovered a job candidate was lying, stating that their current position was a managerial role. Through fact-checking, Griffin-Braaf confirmed this was untrue.

Hiring managers can likely relate. A recent ResumeLab survey found that 70 percent of workers lie on resumes, with the largest percentage—37 percent—saying they lie frequently. Applicants with master’s or doctoral degrees admitted to embellishing or telling untruths in cover letters and job interviews most often (85 percent), based on the responses collected from 1,900 U.S.-based workers in August 2023. Seventy-one percent of candidates without a college degree said they have lied, while 63 percent of candidates with college or associate degrees have done so.

“Honestly, I wasn’t surprised about the survey results,” Griffin-Braaf said. “The job hiring process is a competitive one, and like all competitive things, you will have people who take shortcuts and cheat to get the results they are looking for.”

Lynette Weatherford, founder and president of Human Resource Advantage LLC in Springfield, Mo., adds that the pressure to hire, and hire quickly, may open the door for misinterpretation.

“I’m not saying it is not happening. Maybe a candidate is so anxious to get the job they claim to have more experience than they do and hope to wing it if they get hired,” she said. “But is it also that the employer is so anxious to…


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