Proving your integrity
There's another crucial element to consider at your interview. Are you aware that around 70% of job seekers lie on their CVs? Employers and recruiters certainly are. Which means as a way of trying to appear different, telling porkies is a no-go.
The consequences snowball once you get through to an interview. Now you have to remember all the spin you've created. One mistake and you can kiss the job goodbye - and any prospect of ever working for that employer again.
Worse can happen if you get hired. In all likelihood, you'll have to live with that lie for the rest of your career. Reckon it's worth the risk? Misrepresenting yourself is a crime and you could be prosecuted for fraud. Even if you change jobs, your dishonesty could catch up with you and land you out on the street.
And you WILL get caught, sooner or later. Lie about your salary and Inland Revenue records will expose you before your first pay cheque even hits your bank account. Lie about your credentials and you'll run into someone who wonders why your recall about your old Uni is so wildly inaccurate.
The killer is if you get away with it for a long time. How far can you fall when you're senior management and in your fifties, about to take up share options and join the inner sanctum?
It's your life on the line, don't chance it.