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LinkedIntoTrouble
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So you stretch the truth on your resumé. Everybody does it, huh? What's the harm? Well, the harm is that you might end up like this woman who got a powerful government job in South Australia with a fake resumé and LinkedIn profile (using a photo of Kate Upton in place of her own!) and only got caught after a) she hired her brother with lucrative contracts and b) she couldn't do the job. And by faking her way into the job, qualified applicants lost out. She's pleading guilty to fraud and deception charges and headed to some jail time. But it also raises the question of how she got hired in the first place. Companies and government agencies are relying on resumé scanning these days, eliminating good candidates and selecting bad ones all on the basis of whether the "right" words were included in the resumé or application. The hiring executives don't want to make their own decisions, lest they get the blame for a bad hire. They can always just say, well, the computer did it. (7 News)
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