17 selected executives who lied on their resume

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From Esperanza Restle and Jacquelyn Smith

Your resume is a place to show their greatest successes and display your most valuable skills. Is that hiring managers use to determine whether it would be good for the job, and if you are worthy of meeting in person.

So it is not surprising that most people are in their resumes. A CareerBuilder survey in 2014 revealed that 58% of hiring managers exaggerate candidates or rigging details about the features, abilities or rewards above. And the entry-level or mid-level workers are not the only ones who lie. CEOs have, also.

Here are 17 successful executives who have been admitted captured or falsify, to exaggerate or even lie on their resumes.

Vivian Giang and Jhaneel Lockhart contributed to an earlier version of this article.