Yahoo Board Member Out Over CEO’s Bogus Résumé

My comment four months ago...

> I choked on my coffee when I saw the headline. Not the Scott Thompson from Kids in the Hall. Though that would be an inspired choice as well, and just as likely to save Yahoo.

Sketch comedy might have been preferable to this train wreck.

I'm willing to bet this problem doesn't end with Yahoo. How many CEO's do you think have resumes that contain false data?

CEO's, older, experienced CEO's, only expose their resumes to a very limited scope of reviewers. I'd suggest that the scrutiny (fact-checking) that their resume gets is not quite the same as, say, a developer applying to a large IT company. Whether the demand for a factually accurate resume from a potential CEO is greater, less than or the same as your average developer is left as a question for the reader.

Here the person leading the search embellished her own credentials.

Perhaps when selecting a CEO, there are "more important things" than the checking the accuracy of his/her resume.

But then you could also argue finding false information on a resume might just have some informative value of its own.

The public almost never gets to see a CEO's resume. I mean the actual document, not some blurb that comes out of the communications department.