Keeping It Real When Looking for a New Job

Does coaching your daughter's soccer team count as management experience? If you've added clip art to PowerPoint presentations, are you a graphics artist? If you have written online restaurant reviews, does that make you a legitimate restaurant critic?

You might be surprised what pops up on résumés these days. Many job-seekers have been instructed to make past accomplishments seem substantial. But you can easily cross a line between real and exaggerated.