What You Can Learn About Resume Fraud From Watching ‘Suits’

If lying on your resume were a crime, offices everywhere just might see a number of employees being led away in handcuffs like “Mike Ross” (Patrick J. Adams) on the USA legal drama Suits, which is beginning its sixth season. When the series started, cutthroat legal hot shot “Harvey Specter” (Gabriel Macht) hired Mike as an associate at his Manhattan firm, believing the college dropout had both the book smarts of a Harvard law grad and the street smarts of a hustler. Mike’s lack of credentials was their secret, which eventually got out because people they did business with knew how to use Google, and co-workers who actually went to Harvard – such as partner, “Louis Litt” (Rick Hoffman) -- could spot an uncultivated Ivy League handshake a mile away.