Open Thread

“to the people that are saying to lie, what’s your opinion about lying about past experience to get a much HIGHER level job than you should be allowed based on experience? im just throwing it out there…”

I agree with Snappy Rob. You’ll be found out one way or another, not to mention when they start talking lingo or experiences with you and you have none.

When I say LIE, I mean ‘manipulate somewhat’. You can extend dates or employment if the company no longer exists – who’s to know if you stretch them by 2 months to hide an employment ‘gap’.

You can use ‘dumber’ or ‘smarter’ language and lingo to describe a position. When someone at your old job pointed at a stack of papers and said “Can you do something with that?” You might put on your resume that you “designed and managed file storage and retrieval system for project tracking and record keeping”. Or, on the ‘dumbing it down’ side, “filed daily paper work for management”.

I DO NOT recommend saying you have done things you have not done.

I do not recommend lying, more like minor stretching of the truth. If one reference will ‘talk you up’, then use them, not the HR person who has no clue as to what the hell it was you did everyday.

Agree completely with THL at 11:31
(oh, and of course at 11:14 as well!)

I think there’s a difference btw omitting qualifications and embellishing on them.

Omitting simply means you’re only sharing those qualification relevant to the job you’re seeking. Embellishing is more like flat out lying. You just can’t make-up experiences.

I’ve never lied on a resume. But then I haven’t been in a situation (yet) where things got desparate and I was going to lose the roof over my head or be unable to feed my family. It seems that lies and cheating (especially in college) are de rigueur nowadays.