| Fallout from resume lies can be brutal Padding resumes has brought down many figures, and the dishonest trend begins young, studies show. January 31, 2002 By MARK WROLSTAD Lies are like land mines. When fitted onto resumes, falsehoods can sit undetected indefinitely. Or they can detonate at any moment, proving fatal to careers and credibility. Public life in America is strewn with wreckage from the reputations of figures sabotaged by their own lies.... "Sometimes a moral person lies," Josephson said. "We have to make a distinction between lies that don't break trust and those that are fundamentally self-serving to gain an advantage and destroy a fair system." |