Honesty is the best policy for your resume by Carol Kleiman Chicago Tribune It's always a sin to tell a lie, especially on your resume, just ask George O'Leary, former Notre Dame football coach, who had to re sign his post because he had falsified his re sume. Is there a lesson in this for all of us? "O'Leary was stupid," said Nat Stoddard, chairman and chief executive officer of Crenshaw Associates, a New York-based outplacement firm that specializes in plan ning and managing professional transitions for CEOs and their direct reports. Whether it's "intentional fabrication or overzealous polishing," Stoddard firmly as serts that "resume inflation has a tendency to catch up with you. Cheats always get caught. And more and more companies are checking resumes. "But that's not really the point. Lying on your resume has nothing to do with being caught. What it has to do with is who you are." I asked Stoddard, who has an undergradu- ate degree in sociology and an MBA and has been in his profession since 1989, where he draws the line between "embellishment" and the effort to market yourself effectively. He doesn't. "Embellishment is not OK," Stoddard as serted. "It's a form of lying. The only rule is that if it's not true, it's false - and it doesn't belong on your resume." That's why the CEO says you must not take full credit for work that may have already been underway before you took over; that you shouldn't say you went to college for eight years when you only took a couple of night courses during that time; and that you are ly ing if you change your job title in order to make it more relevant to the job you're ap- plying for. What about leaving out certain jobs of short duration? Stoddard is unrelenting. "It's a lie," he said. "A resume is a chronological adver tisement for yourself. And truth in advertis ing includes where you've been and what you've done - with no breaks in the action. It's not very complicated." To help remember exactly where and when you did what, Stoddard urges everyone to keep a file of documents _ such as diplomas, awards, pay stubs, IRS returns, military ser vice records, congratulatory notes from em ployers and the like. S. Gary Snodgrass agrees that it's a sin to lie on your resume. The veteran human re source professional is senior vice president and chief administrative officer of Exelon Corp., an energy services company headquar tered in Chicago with more than 30,000 em ployees nationwide. "At the end of the day, you want to stick to the truth," said Snodgrass, who has an un dergraduate degree in business administration and an MBA. "What you say is who you are. It might be tempting to fudge a little here and there - salary, dates of employment and edu cation are what people lie about most - but once you've started down that trail it's a slip pery slope." Snodgrass is the author of a new book, "When Your Career Means Business: 12 Guidelines for Managing Your Personal Ca reer and Professional Life." It's self-published and sells for $15.95. He says he "sadly con tinues to see an increase of embellishments on resumes, possibly because of a more com petitive job market and increased unemploy ment nationwide." Telling the truth, Snodgrass says, "doesn't mean you have to disclose everything that's happened to you since the moment you were born. But it does mean you should give the true and relevant facts." PETA's 'Got Beer?' ads return to college campuses by Kim McCoy Knight Ridder Newspapers Many Florida State University students didn't know what to make of ads in the FSVIew & Florida Flambeau last week that proclaimed beer is better than milk. People for the Ethical Treatment of Ani mals revived its "Got Beer?" ads in college papers across the nation and Canada on Thursday. The ads, which first ran two years ago, are a spoof of the "Got Milk?" ads. The group says a Harvard University Medical School study reveals reasons why beer may have some health benefits and milk may have health risks. "Nobody thinks of beer as a health food," said Bruce Friedrich, PETA's director of vegan outreach. "Everybody thinks of juice and soy. The point is that milk is worse for than you than beer." A freshman at FSU said the ad will raise some eyebrows. "To advertise beer is extreme, but that's what PETA does," said Jessica Butera, a fashion student. "But it does get your atten tion, especially in a college town." PETA's ad directs people to MilkSucks.com where they can read about health risks to people and animals. 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