Yahoo exec's Resume

[Alex]

My view is that if you don't have a blatant lie on your resume, you're doing it wrong.

Well, that's not quite true. Though I do generally have the opinion that you lie your way into jobs and then perform your way into keeping them.

I do feel that if you are hired because of words on a resume that implies a broken process worse than the lie. So I mostly shrug my shoulders. They're free to fire him if they want but I wouldn't care if they don't.

If a specific college degree or certificate or claim of classroom education is at all relevant to selecting a major CEO, then again, I think you're doing it wrong.

That said, for example, on my resumes for years I said I had a BA in American History from the University of Washington. There's no such thing (or wasn't then). There was just a BA in History and everybody who got one had some area of focus that had certain requirements. I just didn't want to have to explain it since the follow up question to "BA in History" is always "yeah, but what kind."

Now, 15 years into my career, I barely even mention where I went to school on my resume. It's nearly beyond irrelevant.