Work related... WWYD?

shoegal715

I'm applying for 85 jobs in my field. It's a very regimented process, with the deadline for all of them being this Friday.

All of my applications are ready to go, addressed and sealed in envelopes. I was going to go tomorrow and walk around to hand them out.

The problem? I have inadvertently lied twice on my resume.

I'm volunteering at a firm this summer, and I put it under WORK experience on my resume, as opposed to under VOLUNTEER. I wasn't thinking and just caught it now.

Secondly, I put on my resume (under the place where I'm volunteering) that I "assisted members in the securities and litigation departments." 

I was suppose to start working on a litigation project this week and it would have been my first time in this department. However, the boss told me today that the case settled and they no longer need help with prepping the trial. Therefore, I will not be doing any litigation work.

So, after this long-winded message do I leave these 2 little oopsies or do I open up ALL of the envelopes, re-do all of the labels, and do the resume over, or do I leave it? 

Do you think it's a big deal? What would you do? 

A part of me think it's small and insignificant, and another part is worried that they will call my boss (who is a reference for me) and ask what I did in the litigation department.. To which his response will be: nothing.

pooh8402

I'd redo them because little "oopsies" to you might mean "she's lying" to the recruiters/hiring managers, in this case. it could also show them that maybe you lack an eye for detail for messing those up (and it sounds like your field needs that). not to say that you do, just saying what they may think.

I have printed off several copies of my resume on expensive resume paper for the purpose of giving to hiring managers. every time a small change has been made, I make the correction and toss the old one.

katiewhompus

Re-do them immediately. If a firm hires you based on your previous experience and then you tell them after the fact that you never had that experience bad things could happen. I don't know how it varies state to state or field to field but the company I worked for fired many a person for lying on their resume.
If nothing else, do you really want to start off your first impression with "So I lied on my resume because I wasn't paying attention to detail?"

shoegal715

Ahh you guys are right. Crap. I will suck it up and re-do them. If nothing else, it will allow me to sleep well at night

katiewhompus

Exactly
Now you don't have to wonder if they never called you back because they called the firm you volunteered with and they said "Yeah she never worked here".
If it helps I had to do the same thing but for a stupid little typo. I had applied to almost 40 archaeology firms and after I sealed the envelopes noticed I had a typo.

ZRex

Definitely re-do.  I know it sucks, but your reputation matters more than envelopes and a couple of hours.

damaless

If it were just the Volunteer/Work Experience mixup, I'd say leave it be, but since it also includes listing experience that you actually won't have, you absolutely have to redo them.  You can most definitely be fired if it comes out that you lied about something on your resume.