Job hunter alert: You are most certainly spending too much time and energy on your resume, and sprinkling it with half-truths and inflated accomplishments is worse than a waste of time, because you may end up as an anecdote in a CareerBuilder survey.

Yes, it’s that time of year again, when job search guru CareerBuilder releases its annual report on the state and art of the resume. This year, it crunched input from more than 2,100 hiring and human resource managers to bring us the latest trends in resumes and the best lies reported by respondents.

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Dan Cook

Dan Cook is a journalist and communications consultant based in Portland, OR. During his journalism career he has been a reporter and editor for a variety of media companies, including American Lawyer Media, BusinessWeek, Newhouse Newspapers, Knight-Ridder, Time Inc., and Reuters. He specializes in health care and insurance related coverage for BenefitsPRO.

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