[thespin]

I'm willing to bet this problem doesn't end with Yahoo. How many CEO's do you think have resumes that contain false data?

CEO's, older, experienced CEO's, only expose their resumes to a very limited scope of reviewers. I'd suggest that the scrutiny (fact-checking) that their resume gets is not quite the same as, say, a developer applying to a large IT company. Whether the demand for a factually accurate resume from a potential CEO is greater, less than or the same as your average developer is left as a question for the reader.

Here the person leading the search embellished her own credentials.

Perhaps when selecting a CEO, there are "more important things" than the checking the accuracy of his/her resume.

But then you could also argue finding false information on a resume might just have some informative value of its own.

The public almost never gets to see a CEO's resume. I mean the actual document, not some blurb that comes out of the communications department.

[bane]

As an aside, this company makes verifying lots of resume educational claims relatively simple http://www.nslc.org/