Speaking of lying.
 
Back in the day when I was hiring tech people I got a resume to a "blind" ad from a former employee who I had to let go for shoddy work, missed deadlines and general lack of understanding of our software.
 
She stated in her resume that she "completely re-wrote the Accounts Payable module".
 
In fact she modified the check printing program (which had to be "completely re-written" after I let her go).
 

sharke
But their emails are usually full of spelling mistakes, or they write in that horrible SMS text shorthand (plz msg me if ur hiring) or they use a non-respectable email address ("joeythebongmonster@aol.com") or they have no idea how to sell themselves as a valuable employee ("I can work Mondays, Tuesday afternoons, Wednesday mornings, all day Friday and sometimes have a free Saturday afternoon. I may need the occasional day off at short notice if my agent calls me in for an audition"). 

Yes, and if you actually did ask one of these people to come in for an interview, you'd almost certainly have to listen to a string of words coming out of their mouth in which, on average, every fifth word was "like".

I once interviewed a guy who went on and on (and on and on) about how he had written a program with an IF statement and a loop.  I was in the room with another manager who thought she might need him if I didn't and she had her head tilted down so her hair could cover the fact that she was crying because she was laughing so hard.  He didn't even notice.
 
Then, after 8.5 years with that company, I went back to the MUCH higher paying consulting and ended up at the company that same guy was trying to "upgrade" from.  The put me in a 4' by 4' cube with short walls two cubes away from that guy who was completely paranoid that I would tell everyone he was looking for a new job.  I didn't, but I did have to admire his ability to fall asleep sitting straight up in his chair, looking at the monitor with his hands on the keyboard.  No idea how he as able to do that!

dmbaer
 
 
Yes, and if you actually did ask one of these people to come in for an interview, you'd almost certainly have to listen to a string of words coming out of their mouth in which, on average, every fifth word was "like".

That's like, you know, totally unfair. So random.