Engineer Doe Resume Misrepresenting Job-Seeker
R · Role
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/134#Engineer_Doe_Resume_Misrepresenting_Job-Seeker
Definition
Laid-off aerospace engineer (BER 72-11) who, after failing to find work, rewrote his resume to emphasize minor managerial experience and downplay extensive technical design experience in order to obtain a management-track position; Board found this permissible as emphasis rather than deceptive exaggeration.
Properties
Instance of
ResumeMisrepresentingJob-SeekingEngineer
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ResumeMisrepresentingJob-SeekingEngineer
Attributes
| specialty | Aerospace engineering design (12 years) |
| career_transition | Technical design to management/administration |
| outcome | Board found no code violation — permissible emphasis |
Confidence
0.88
Importance
medium
Relationships
| type | applying_to |
| target | Prospective Aerospace Employer |
| type | former_employer |
| target | Aerospace Company Employer |
Role category
employer_relationship
Relationships
Source Evidence
Source text
Doe devised a new resume, which played down his technical design experience and expertise and emphasized his minor managerial and administrative function in his former employment as an important responsibility
Text references
Doe devised a new resume, which played down his technical design experience and expertise and emphasized his minor managerial and administrative function in his former employment as an important responsibility
we are inclined to the more charitable view that his action can be condoned as something less than an 'exaggeration'
TTL
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case134:Engineer_Doe_Resume_Misrepresenting_Job-Seeker a proeth:ResumeMisrepresentingJob-SeekingEngineer,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer Doe Resume Misrepresenting Job-Seeker" ;
proeth-core:adheresToPrinciple case134:Engineer_Doe_Resume_Emphasis_Permissibility_Invocation_BER_72-11,
case134:Resume_Selective_Emphasis_Misrepresentation_By_Engineer_Doe ;
proeth-core:hasObligation case134:Engineer_Doe_BER_72-11_Resume_Emphasis_Permissibility_Boundary_Compliance ;
proeth:attributes "{'specialty': 'Aerospace engineering design (12 years)', 'career_transition': 'Technical design to management/administration', 'outcome': 'Board found no code violation — permissible emphasis'}" ;
proeth:caseinvolvement "Laid-off aerospace engineer (BER 72-11) who, after failing to find work, rewrote his resume to emphasize minor managerial experience and downplay extensive technical design experience in order to obtain a management-track position; Board found this permissible as emphasis rather than deceptive exaggeration." ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Role" ;
proeth:confidence "0.88" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "134" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "1" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-28T21:13:14.723977+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "134" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-28T21:13:14.723977+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "medium" ;
proeth:relationships "{'type': 'applying_to', 'target': 'Prospective Aerospace Employer'}",
"{'type': 'former_employer', 'target': 'Aerospace Company Employer'}" ;
proeth:rolecategory "employer_relationship" ;
proeth:roleclass "Resume Misrepresenting Job-Seeking Engineer" ;
proeth:sourcetext "Doe devised a new resume, which played down his technical design experience and expertise and emphasized his minor managerial and administrative function in his former employment as an important responsibility" ;
proeth:textreferences "Doe devised a new resume, which played down his technical design experience and expertise and emphasized his minor managerial and administrative function in his former employment as an important responsibility",
"we are inclined to the more charitable view that his action can be condoned as something less than an 'exaggeration'" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 134 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-28T21:30:32.612528"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 134 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
134
Discovered in pass
1
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-28T21:13:14.723977+00:00
First case
134
Generated
2026-02-28T21:13:14.723977+00:00
Attributed to
Case 134 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-28T21:30:32.612528
Generated by
ProEthica Case 134 Extraction