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Old 05-17-2016, 10:18 AM
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I've only encountered this once that I know of....

the "embellishment girl" was a neighbor so I pretty much knew when I saw she had put down "captain of the soccer team" and I had never seen her so much as own a ball let alone leave the house in a soccer uniform that it was a fabrication. I saw mother and daughter outside one day and went over to "clarify" things... daughter'r immediate response was "OMG mom why would you put that down I haven't played soccer since I was 10"-- uhm OOOPS not only was daughter NOT doing her own legwork but Mom was making stuff up.

Mom rationalized it by saying that daughter WAS captain of soccer team when she was 10. OKAY... I asked for a more "updated" resume. Never got one so that solved that writing problem- daughter did end up pledging a house but I will never know what resume was used.

Thankfully they moved a few months ago because lets just say it was rather "awkward" neighbor relations after the "incident"
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Old 05-17-2016, 10:54 AM
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I've only encountered this once that I know of....

the "embellishment girl" was a neighbor so I pretty much knew when I saw she had put down "captain of the soccer team" and I had never seen her so much as own a ball let alone leave the house in a soccer uniform that it was a fabrication. I saw mother and daughter outside one day and went over to "clarify" things... daughter'r immediate response was "OMG mom why would you put that down I haven't played soccer since I was 10"-- uhm OOOPS not only was daughter NOT doing her own legwork but Mom was making stuff up.

Mom rationalized it by saying that daughter WAS captain of soccer team when she was 10. OKAY... I asked for a more "updated" resume. Never got one so that solved that writing problem- daughter did end up pledging a house but I will never know what resume was used.

Thankfully they moved a few months ago because lets just say it was rather "awkward" neighbor relations after the "incident"
That's just so sad to me. I know that going thru recruitment is a stressful experience but it NEVER justifies lying in any way. That is just totall wrong and against all principles. I am glad that my daughter did not go thru formal recruitment but waited a few months into school and went thru COB- I think it was so much better for her. Now that she is a member she will get to see first hand in the fall exactly what going thru recruitment would have been like but on the other side. She is a first generation greek so she too is just learning how it all works- but I can tell you its made a wonderful difference in her life and she has met so many great girls- in fact 3 of her sisters she is sharing a house with in fall. As far as embellishing a resume I would hope that those who are writing these will take the job seriously and investigate if things just don't look and seem right.
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Old 05-17-2016, 04:12 PM
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I have seen a few recruitment resumes that listed an honor or participation in an activity that, while technically true, seemed a little more grand in the listing than I knew the activity or "honor" to be. I wouldn't have known that, however, if I didn't know the PNM and the high school.

I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of recruitment resumes (and subsequently the recs based on these resumes) are at the very least embellished, especially when the alum submitting the rec does not know the PNM well (probably a far more common practice now than in the past).

For in-state PNMs attending a school where many actives who attended their high school are sprinkled among the chapters, false info on a resume might be noticed even if the alum submitting the rec was not aware.

For OOS recs, especially those written by an alum who doesn't know the PNM well, and especially when there are few actives about who know the PNM or attended her HS, who knows?

In a large recruitment where thousands of recs are managed, those in charge of membership cannot possibly vet all the details of the recruitment resumes once received.

Resume embellishment -- even inclusion of false info -- is more common than not in the workplace, so I'm not sure I would expect the less risky (by comparison) prospect of embellishing or lying on a recruitment resume to be hugely less common.
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Old 05-17-2016, 04:40 PM
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Although if sororities are checking rushees' social media, I would think things like the soccer captain would rause a red flag if there were no mentions of the team, no liking it etc.
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