I was asked to use very exaggerating adjectives about my abilities on a resume, mainly because I would be able to gain those abilities fairly easy and the “customer” was more focused on buzz words and years of experience than real talent.
It was a large public tender, we were a big team (of mainly unexperienced engineers), we won it and we did a really good job.
It was probably unfair competition to lie on the resume - but I think my employer knew better what they needed, than they did themselves, so we gamed the tender.
My employer at the time - a large international consulting agency. We were given a list of technologies that we were required to mention on our resumes with the instruction “If you have heard about it, you are experienced, if you have worked with it you are either very experienced or an expert”. It did feel wrong writing that resume but tbh I do not think we were overselling our abilities much - only the experience part.
It was a large public tender, we were a big team (of mainly unexperienced engineers), we won it and we did a really good job.
It was probably unfair competition to lie on the resume - but I think my employer knew better what they needed, than they did themselves, so we gamed the tender.