Feeling Guilty About Fake Experience on My Resume: How Can I Come Clean to HR?

Hi,

I have put 10 months of fake experience on my resume to increase my total experience to over 5 years. I have successfully cleared all the interviews and received the offer letter. However, I have now realized my mistake and feel remorseful about it. How can I request HR not to consider this false experience? Please advise me on how to address this situation as I do not want to lose this job offer and I also want to maintain honesty.

Thanks and regards,

Hi,

It is too late in the day to turn honest in this particular case. But if you really want to break out of the cycle of fake experience, then go to the HR and admit the fact and hope that they do not react badly. But be prepared to lose this opportunity.

Hi,

It's late, and I don't think it's necessary now to be true because once you join, no one cares about your resume and experience (except background verification not processed). Make sure that when you apply to a new place after this, at that time, you will be very honest.

Hi All,

I have not yet joined that company. I just received the offer letter. I want to convince the HR without losing my job. I have not resigned from my current company.

Thanks in advance...

One has to face the consequences of falsehood today or tomorrow. Then reconsider whether you should join this new company. It will be very difficult to convince HR about accepting the fact that you showed fake experience. Even if they accept, this shadow will haunt your career in the new place. Any subsequent problem, even if totally unintended, will rattle the original skeleton in your cupboard. Think carefully and in totality before going ahead.

We all make mistakes - none of us is perfect. However, the fact that you are now uncomfortable manifests your inherent goodness and the fact that you now seek atonement for your transgression. Do not fear! Say a prayer and go right across to the HR head and confess, without concern for the consequences. Only then would you be comfortable with yourself and become a better person. Best of luck!

Inherent goodness...  Sorry, but the questioner only asks for atonement as he now has the offer letter in hand. If not, he surely would have continued with the same resume.

It is understood that sometimes you have to do such things due to desperation or limited choice, but then why this discomfort? You did what you did willingly. If you cannot take the 'responsibility of your decision,' whether it be good or bad, then how do you expect to make decisions for the organization in your job going ahead?

As Nathrao mentioned in his very first response, it is too late to turn honest in this particular case. You can restore your self-respect, but be prepared to lose this opportunity.

Best Regards,
Amod Bobade.

Thank you all. The reason I had to share this experience is that I had a 10-month gap between jobs. I was working with a firm but didn't take experience from there as I was receiving very little salary and was not able to support my family. Another company offered me a job and asked me to join soon. I was helpless and desperate for money, so I had to make this decision. To fill this gap, I took an experience letter from another company. I have never lied in my life, but unwillingly, I got into this situation as every company was asking about this gap.

"Inherent goodness...  Sorry, but the questioner only asks for atonement as he now has the offer letter in hand. If not, he surely would have continued with the same resume."

Mr. Bobade

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My View

We need to develop integrity and character to avoid falling into these traps.

The debate going on about "inherent goodness" reminded me of John's Gospel about Casting the first stone. I am sure we all have made mistakes in our lives and have repented for telling lies. So, let us appreciate when someone wants not to continue falsifying his/her qualifications and/or experience and wants to clean the slate and start afresh.