Why not just tell the truth about how long you've been there?
I'm sure he needs a job very bad and sometimes people are forced to do things they really don''t want to do in this over saturated economy and market.
He knows when a company say
"one year of experience" they want one year of experience ,nothing less. How else does he gain more experience if every job reject you because you don't have the minimum.
This happened to me some years ago, I got laid off before I hit my two years of experiences in my field, I only needed three month to have the minimum. I was getting rejected a lot so I changed some shyt,
I hustle this job market like the CAC's that started these companies , go read about some of these CEO's they didn't get to that point in there life by being righteous.