Mark Amtower’s Six Habits of Highly Defective People ‘Who Just Don’t Get It’

4. The inflatable resume. Some people write resumes that reflect their fantasy life rather than their history, Amtower said. Inflatable resumes inflate the gullible outsider, someone looking for a surefire way to have success in all things.

Inflatable resumes use extreme hyperbolic assertions. “You’ll believe that if you’re not associated with them right now,” Amtower quipped, “life won’t just pass you by, it’s over.”