How to prove your extracurricular activities?

N_s_Mom
Sat, 17 Oct 2015 15:02:45 +0000

What often happens is that someone who gets away with a lie here and another one there, eventually gets tripped up, and then their entire history is opened up for scrutiny. As an manager, I’ve seen this happen at companies where someone’s performance is poorer than expected based on their supposed work history. Once you start going back, all kinds of little discrepancies begin to add up and they are fired in a heartbeat. Sometimes a jealous co-worker or class-mate actually rats out a colleague. (Yes, I’ve had to deal with that.) The same happens when someone comes up for disciplinary action at their college (or for any public position later in life) - once the records get reopened, they are toast. D won a prestigious award and there were articles in the newspaper locally reiterating her high school accomplishments because the local high school wanted to boost ‘their’ graduate. If any of those had been faked, it would have been humiliating to say the least.

Bottom line, if you lie on an application, you may get away with it, but you will never be safe.