When the position says “Education: High school degree or equivalent,” is there a way for someone with more education to remain truthful and still catch HRs attention as a potential hire?
This has come up before, but I simply cannot see omitting irrelevant qualifications from a resume as fraud. I don’t put my one-month stint at Sam Goody on my resume; neither do I tell people that I tutored students in logic and music theory. This is not because I’m hiding anything: it’s because the experiences are irrelevant. Resumes are not CVs — they are not exhaustive lists of your life’s work. To treat them as such, in my opinion, reflects a misunderstanding of the difference between the academy and other professions. *************** “This has come up before, but I simply cannot see omitting irrelevant qualifications from a resume as fraud.” I didn’t mean to suggest that in all cases omitting the Ph.D. would constitute fraud. Rather, in my particular case leaving out my Ph.D. would also require deleting my post-graduate school work experience. That would mean striking out 15-20 years of my life, with nothing in its place. To fill that gap I would need to construct a fraudulent sto
