How To Pad Your
Resume
Applying to a school or to a job can be an extremely challenging thing to do,
and with the criteria to get higher and accepted continue to grow; sometimes
padding your resume is the only way to get your foot in the door. In recent
years the expectations of people applying for their first job has grown at a
rapid rate. Employers expect candidates to have had several years of experience
in the field, which is basically impossible if you were a student, they expect
numerous hours of community service and club activities to have been completed,
and they expect extremely high GPAs, event from very difficult schools. With
demand like this, sometimes padding your resume is the only way you are going to
stand out in a crowd.
Here are some examples of ways to pad your resume so that you might get the
chance to interview at the company of your dreams. One example it to exaggerate
the types of community service you have done. For example, if you spent a month
in a third world country and have the documentation to prove it, it is extremely
easy to make this experience seem more noble and heart-wrenching then it was.
Say you spend a month sunbathing in Fiji with your schools Community service
club. This does not seem very beneficial and definitely doesn’t seem like
something you would put on a resume. However, because it is very unlikely that a
hopeful employer will call Fiji, you can easily say that you helped build 30
houses, taught an illiterate child how to read, and ended the segregation
barriers within a local elementary school. Another way to boost your resume is
to exaggerate on the amount of time you help a particular position at a
particular company. For example, say you were a stockroom boy for 3 years at a
local department store, and then became the stock room manager for one month
before you decided to quit the job. You could easily pad your resume with a line
stating that you were a stockroom manager and worked at the company for 3 years.
There for you are not technically lying, but your future employer will assume
that you were the manager for 3 years. Still another way to pad your resumes is
to skew your GPA. Many employers don’t ask for college transcripts, so this is
an easy way to get a few points in the interviewer’s eyes. For instance, say you
had a cumulative 2.3 GPA, but in your major you had a 3.1 GPA, you could easily
put your majors GPA on your resume and not specify what the GPA was for. The is
a foul proof trick because even if the future employer does eventually get your
transcript, you can simply tell them that you thought they knew it was your
majors GPA.
Another way to pad your resume is to ad smaller honors and awards to the
Leadership section of your resume. This is important because most employers wont
take the time to validate the awards, but will still take notice to the
achievements. Small additions such as this, could set a potential candidate
above the other candidates, especially in the candidates have similar resumes.
Some awards that a candidate could add could be leadership positions held for
charitable clubs, volunteer work at local food shelters or hospitals, or
volunteer trips that took place outside on the states. Going along with this way
to pad the resume, it would also be possible to ad language skills to the
resume. For example, if a potential job candidate took a few classes in a not so
common language, they could easily out that they were proficient in the
language. Chances that the person interviewing would know the language are slim
and this is a great way to stand out in the interviewers mind.
Many employers go through thousands of resumes for each potential employer
they are looking to hire. Because of this, many resumes look the same and you
have to do something in order to set yourself apart from the masses. Small
upgrades to a resume can make all the different to interviewers, especially
skills that are not common and unique. The interviewer is bound to remember the
things that stick out in their mind, and the more things there are, the better.
With these tricks, it should be easier to land an interview for the job of you
dreams. Just remember, while padding a resume is a good technique from getting
an interview or job, the basic functions needed to do the job should not be lied
about or embellished or else the interviewee could be made to look like a fool
once the get the job.