How To "Enhance" Your Resume

Modify your employment history to include at least one company that famously has gone down in flames, such as Enron. This guarantees sympathy and makes it nearly impossible to verify your past.

Concoct a stirring narrative of what you did at your fake employer, including your job title, responsibilities, accomplishments, and salary. A large fake salary is actually more believable than a small one.

Adjust any details of your real job history that you never liked or always thought were unfair. If getting lunch every day for your boss was part of your job, claim you were involved in “culinary engineering.”

Pick “personal interests” that set you apart from the pack and are too boring for anyone to care to check. Claim you run 20 miles a day, or that you won the National Book Award in 1974.

Be sure to give a copy of the finished product to anyone listed as a reference so they can familiarize themselves with your fabrications and begin answering their phone with the name of your fictitious employer.