[gavanwoolery]

I have a pretty simple solution for you:

If they are a college grad, they are probably trying to get their foot in the door anywhere. Tell them they can intern for a 2-4 weeks, and if they do well they will be hired full time.

Alternatively, you can hire them on blind faith. If they are obviously lying about their qualifications, you can blacklist them in a blog entry (trust me, no one wants to have their name come up with bad results in google). Of course, warn them first that if they are lying about their qualifications, you will make this public knowledge. Either they will be confident enough to continue or you will have filtered out one unwanted candidate.

The last way is just to hire them, no questions asked. 99 percent of the time, they will make great employees, even if they struggle for the first month. I was hired with no knowledge of Flash out of college to work on a Flash-exclusive project that already had 10s of thousands of lines of code. In the end, I turned out to be a valuable employee, despite being severely unqualified.

[AndrewGCook]

I think you should trial run every employee before hiring them full time if possible. Sales people can lie about their qualifications just as much as any hacker. In fact, it might be easier because the hacker's work is most likely to be publicly online.