Q&A CAREER COACH

GO TO GREG

Your advice that it’s acceptable to omit some jobs from your resume allows for a selective use of the truth. There is no room for lying on a resume. Period. Shame on you! I own a search firm, and I presented a candidate who omitted a job from his resume. He had started and left the same day for personal reasons. The hiring company rescinded the offer because he “lied” on his CV, which had to be a representation of the candidate’s entire employment history. Every job a candidate has worked at must be represented.

Fake news! More lies in the press about me. I was very clear that everything on your resume must be truthful — which is, you know, the same as saying you can’t lie. You are mistaken when you state that the resume is an affidavit of everything you’ve done. If that’s the advice you are giving, your candidates might have more success with another firm. It is a marketing document that can and should be tailored with relevant information for the job. However, some employers will ask you to list every job you’ve ever held and on those forms, yes, you must state every job. The bottom line is that a resume is a marketing document, not a chronology of your employment. Don’t lie about anything, ever. But you don’t have to include every job, particularly if it isn’t relevant, unless you are specifically asked. You should listen to me, because I’m, like, really smart . . .

Gregory Gian grande is a chief human resources and communications officer in the media industry. E-mail your career questionstogotogreg@nypost.com. And follow Greg on Twitter: @greggiangrande.