Can you go "too far" in reverse-engineering the résumé to fit the job description?

• The only way you can go too far is if you embellish or lie
• Make sure to have a story or backup point in case you are probed on a term or point of your résumé
• Feel free to use their lingo, but stay honest to your actual experiences and skillsets
• Successful interviewing is the art of telling the interviewer exactly what he or she wants to hear, as long as it also happens to be the truth.
  • Think about an interview in which you failed to tell the interviewer something which was relevant, appropriate, or recommended
  • If you did not put that on the table, you have not successfully executed the interview.
  • If you find yourself in a situation in which you are following short in a qualification, if you address the qualification which is missing before the interviewer does, you can use a "pre-emptive strike"
    • "On my own I will take the necessary courses and study to bridge that gap"