Use the five-step decision-making process discussed in the review chapter to analyze the following situations and recommend a course of action. Ensure that your claims are well supported. 

You are a recent graduate of a well-respected business school, but you are having trouble getting a job. You worked with a professional résumé service to develop a well-written résumé and placed it on several Web sites; you also sent it directly to contacts at a dozen companies. So far, you have not even had an invitation for an interview. You know that one of your shortcomings is that you have no real job experience to speak of. 

You are considering beefing up your résumé by exaggerating the extent of the class project you worked on for a few weeks at your brother-in-law’s small consulting firm. You could reword the résumé to make it sound as if you were actually employed and that your responsibilities were greater than they actually were. 

What would you do? Explain your reasoning.