Doe Resume Misrepresenting Job-Seeking Engineer
R · Role
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/166#Doe_Resume_Misrepresenting_Job-Seeking_Engineer
Definition
Engineer Doe, whose aerospace specialty had dried up during an industry unemployment crisis, embellished and strongly emphasized the extent and level of his managerial and administrative technical experience on employment applications in order to secure new employment, raising the question of whether such emphasis constitutes a prohibited 'exaggeration' under Section 3(e) of the Code of Ethics.
Properties
Instance of
ResumeMisrepresentingJob-SeekingEngineer
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ResumeMisrepresentingJob-SeekingEngineer
Attributes
| specialty | Aerospace engineering (technical expertise dried up) |
| conduct | Emphasized managerial/administrative experience beyond its actual extent |
| ethical_finding | Conduct held to be emphasis rather than prohibited exaggeration — condoned under charitable interpretation absent prior precedent |
| code_section | Section 3(e) — prohibition on listing for employment using exaggerated statements of qualifications |
Confidence
0.95
Importance
high
Relationships
| type | applicant_to |
| target | Prospective Engineering Employer |
| type | subject_of |
| target | NSPE Code Section 3(e) Analysis |
Role category
employer_relationship
Relationships
adheresToPrinciple
Honesty in Professional Representations Violated By Doe, Resume Selective Emphasis Misrepresentation Invoked By Doe
hasObligation
Doe Resume Role-Balance Misrepresentation Prohibition
Source Evidence
Source text
Doe embellished the facts of his experience in order to obtain new employment
Text references
Doe could truthfully show some degree of competence in the managerial and administrative technical area
Doe embellished the facts of his experience in order to obtain new employment
he strongly emphasized its extent and level
his field of technical expertise having 'dried up' during the aerospace unemployment crisis
TTL
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case166:Doe_Resume_Misrepresenting_Job-Seeking_Engineer a proeth:ResumeMisrepresentingJob-SeekingEngineer,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Doe Resume Misrepresenting Job-Seeking Engineer" ;
proeth-core:adheresToPrinciple case166:Honesty_in_Professional_Representations_Violated_By_Doe,
case166:Resume_Selective_Emphasis_Misrepresentation_Invoked_By_Doe ;
proeth-core:hasObligation case166:Doe_Resume_Role-Balance_Misrepresentation_Prohibition ;
proeth:attributes "{'specialty': 'Aerospace engineering (technical expertise dried up)', 'conduct': 'Emphasized managerial/administrative experience beyond its actual extent', 'ethical_finding': 'Conduct held to be emphasis rather than prohibited exaggeration — condoned under charitable interpretation absent prior precedent', 'code_section': 'Section 3(e) — prohibition on listing for employment using exaggerated statements of qualifications'}" ;
proeth:caseinvolvement "Engineer Doe, whose aerospace specialty had dried up during an industry unemployment crisis, embellished and strongly emphasized the extent and level of his managerial and administrative technical experience on employment applications in order to secure new employment, raising the question of whether such emphasis constitutes a prohibited 'exaggeration' under Section 3(e) of the Code of Ethics." ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Role" ;
proeth:confidence "0.95" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "166" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "1" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-02T11:32:56.233342+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "166" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-02T11:32:56.233342+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:relationships "{'type': 'applicant_to', 'target': 'Prospective Engineering Employer'}",
"{'type': 'subject_of', 'target': 'NSPE Code Section 3(e) Analysis'}" ;
proeth:rolecategory "employer_relationship" ;
proeth:roleclass "Resume Misrepresenting Job-Seeking Engineer" ;
proeth:sourcetext "Doe embellished the facts of his experience in order to obtain new employment" ;
proeth:textreferences "Doe could truthfully show some degree of competence in the managerial and administrative technical area",
"Doe embellished the facts of his experience in order to obtain new employment",
"he strongly emphasized its extent and level",
"his field of technical expertise having 'dried up' during the aerospace unemployment crisis" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 166 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-02T11:50:25.427314"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 166 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
166
Discovered in pass
1
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-02T11:32:56.233342+00:00
First case
166
Generated
2026-03-02T11:32:56.233342+00:00
Attributed to
Case 166 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-02T11:50:25.427314
Generated by
ProEthica Case 166 Extraction