Job candidate gets caught in a lie during phone interview after creating fake resume: 'I [hung] up on my interviewer and blocked her'

Exaggerating on your resume almost always backfires. Sure, you might be having trouble in your job search. You might even be trying to switch careers. Perhaps you spent hours on end rage-applying to jobs on LinkedIn, only to hear absolutely nothing in return.

Still, there are far better solutions and experiments worth trying in your search than embellishing your resume or, in this case, fully fabricating work experience that didn't actually exist. This job candidate learned that lesson the hard way. After receiving a callback interview for a career in which they had next to no experience, they were caught in a lie over a phone interview only a minute after the call began. Keep scrolling below to see how the candidate went from thinking they were a mastermind to thinking they were the most foolish person on the planet!

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