Collaborative Credit Misrepresenting Job-Seeking Engineer
Class
170fd9a7
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#CollaborativeCreditMisrepresentingJob-SeekingEngineer
Definition
A licensed or credentialed engineer who, while seeking new employment, submits a resume that falsely implies sole or primary personal responsibility for products, designs, or inventions that were in fact the result of joint team effort, thereby misrepresenting the individual contribution relative to colleagues and bearing obligations of honesty and accurate attribution under professional codes of ethics.
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Definition
A licensed or credentialed engineer who, while seeking new employment, submits a resume that falsely implies sole or primary personal responsibility for products, designs, or inventions that were in fact the result of joint team effort, thereby misrepresenting the individual contribution relative to colleagues and bearing obligations of honesty and accurate attribution under professional codes of ethics.
Scope Note
[proethica-intermediate-extended] A licensed or credentialed engineer who, while seeking new employment after a layoff or career transition, crafts a resume that materially misrepresents or disproportionately emphasizes certain experience categories (e.g., managerial vs. technical) in a manner that may mislead prospective employers about the engineer's actual qualifications, bearing obligations of honesty and accuracy in self-representation under professional codes.
Source Evidence
Source Text
Engineer A submits his resume to Employer Y and on it implies that he personally was responsible for the design of products which were actually designed through a joint effort of the members of the team
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Ontology
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Content Hash
170fd9a736d1788c...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
135
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
facts
First Discovered At
2026-03-01T15:38:39.928820+00:00
First Discovered In Case
135
Generated
2026-03-01T15:38:39.928820+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 135 Extraction