Resume Cheating

At first, I did not fully understand how someone can expect to lie and get away with it on a resume. My assumption was creating positions not held, which in fact was mentioned. Predominantly, however, the article focussed on smaller "white" lies. At first, one must wonder why should there be the need to lie in order to get a job, since experience is gained as time goes by. When considering the situation of someone who has been rejected over and over, and the period goes into months of unemployment, it is easy to see why such a person would lie about something so trivial as expanding the timeframe of a job held. It is human nature to try to mask the imperfections. More shocking, however, was the mentioning of elaborating on job titles, and how this can be viewed as lying, leading to termination. It is easy to see how one can expand on a previous job position. Speaking from experience, if certain tasks performed are not part of the position's description or title, one can easily be tempted to expand on the title to include those tasks. The scary thing is that is still considered dishonest, even if it were meant with honest intentions. I guess the best thing one can do is thoroughly understand the description of a title, and ask for modifications to that title if certain tasks are not part of that position. Otherwise, don't mention those tasks in the form of a newly invented job title.