Isn’t lying on your resume potentially a form of theft? If your resume says fraudulently, i.e., you graduated PBK from your university, and the boss hires you based on that fraudulent information, you’re taking a spot that doesn’t honestly belong to you. Any $ you made while holding that position is a form of theft, and it’s deprived another who might honestly deserve the position of those same $s.
The whole Brit education and employment systems are quite different from the US. Perhaps that accounts for the criminality vs. ‘just’ immorality here.
I don’t think so, in anything more than a very abstract way. Granted, when I hire people, I do look at resumes, but I go more by the interview. More telling than either of those, I live in a right-to-work/right-to-fire state, so I can hire people for what amounts to an audition. If I don’t like their results, out they go. I’m not trying to hire people who are good at creating resumes or good at interviewing; that’s not what the jobs consist of.
In fact, I told one candidate in so many words “I don’t believe a word of it. When can you start?”