George Santos isn't a graduate of New York University's Stern School of Business, and he didn't double the revenue of a Goldman Sachs division in seven months.
"Trust me, people can weave a great story and résumés can be written creatively and misrepresent 'facts,'" Indeed, recruiters told Insider that it's not uncommon for them to do"backdoor background checks" where they contact someone not listed as a reference who might know the candidate. "Most recruiters are not going to see the résumé as the single source of truth," Sarah Johnston, a former recruiter who now works as an executive-résumé writer, told Insider in an email.
Now do Joe Biden. This week he said he was a professor at Penn. how many classes did he teach?
So, how many journalists failed to do their job?