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You don't need to lie on your resume for it to stand out and be impressive.
First, stop listing "duties" and generalized things for the role. As somebody that's done a few hundred interviews, I quickly bin those resumes. I have a good understanding of what a related role's duties are that would make you qualified for a role I'm interviewing for.
Your goal in a resume is to show the hiring team of what you can provide to the team/company if you are brought on board.
What you should do is keep track of you work successes and KPIs and periodically update your resume with those successes and metrics for that role. Got a top performer review status, log it. Increased sales for the department by some % for the year, log it. Delivered a highly complex & valuable project, log it.
If you do the above, I can have a good understanding of what you're actually capable of and how you utilize the skills you have within a role.
Are you sure not including duties and what you actually did is recommended?
Like, "Software Engineer" could mean bloody anything if you don't specify what you actually did. You could have been mindlessly doing minor Jira tickets and running import tools, or you could be architecting entire pieces of enterprise software.
Listing your successes, metrics, and accomplishments will drive home your actual work duties and capabilities.
If you're listing the following, you've failed in writing a solid entry to tell me that you're a bugfix and data import wizard:
Instead, you could write entries like:
I'm not saying to lie or embellish either. I'm saying that you need to think about how you market your skills for sale as a service. If I'm looking for somebody with those skills, the latter two bullet points are going to stand out a far lot better than the former.