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There's nothing dishonest about omitting irrelevant qualifications and experience from a job application.

Genuine question for you (and anyone else), while on the topic. If you had a Master's degree and all you did was "normal" office job type stuff, but now if you want to do hourly burger flipping or whatever else, how would you go about tailoring your CV? You can drop a degree or something but now you have to also account for 5 to 7yrs of full-time job experience.....I am trying to rack my brain.

I doubt you need to account for a gap in work experience for a burger flipping job.

I had a friend who had a BS and wanted a temp part time job but got turned down a lot....and these were simple jobs!

Sure. But if you are asked directly you may not feel comfortable lying about it.

I can't imagine that the McDonald's manager is going to ask whether you have as Master's degree but just didn't write it down.

No, but people ask - what were you doing between date A - date B where there is a gap in your work history.

If you present as something unexpected (more educated, different social class, different age range, etc.) to someone hiring, they are often going to try and figure you out.

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