How many have lied on their cv (resume)?

[GaryWary]

Just wondering... I am looking to 'spice' up certain aspects of my cv.

 

[daemon]

I stretch the truth. I think most people do. I don't misrepresent my skills though. And I won't lie in an interview.

 

[huntmaster]

George Oleary

 

[HighGrade]

LOL... I've been truthful... no wonder I haven't had any Luck

 

[gorilla_boy]

Tell them that you've repeatedly survived dread-disease. You might get the job out of sympathy.

At least the truth would be better than lying.

 

[mrbill]

never blatantly lied (like saying you have a degree if you don't), but i think everyone tries to put their info in the "best light" they can

 

[GaryWary]

I have sympathy for your stupidity Gorilla boy.

 

[GaryWary]

2000.

 

[gorilla_boy]

I have sympathy for your stupidity Gorilla boy.

Thank you.

Now go get a job.

 

[Taps]

I've lied. I don't like doing it, but if comes down to fibbing or not getting the job, I'll go the Pinochio route.

I mean, I it's not like I'm appling to NASA and lieing about a PhD in Physics. It's mostly just bullshit stuff like exagerating my responsabilities at a previous job

 

[HappyScrappy]

I tell everyone I'm the CEO of Microsoft.
never fails me.

 

[Warik]

I'd rather just put forth the extra effort so that I'd be that damn good that I DIDN'T have to lie.

-Warik

 

[GaryWary]

Gorilla boy.

This is what I see when you post.

This person is on your Ignore List. To view this post click [here]

I clicked out of interest this time. To see if you had become normal. You haven't. So carry on responding to my posts. I am sure everyone finds you oh so clever and witty. But I on the other hand ain't gonna read any more of your fucking brainless shit.

Love Dr. GW

 

[GaryWary]

I'd rather just put forth the extra effort so that I'd be that damn good that I DIDN'T have to lie.

-Warik

Even with shit loads of effort - there can still be holes in your cv. The job market is very competitive. If others are lying a little then potentially you could lose out. Why not get that edge yourself?

 

[GaryWary]

I got an interview with Ford on Monday.

I hope I get it - then I can get married as planned in April. At the moment I cannot even afford an engagement ring. Shit, at the moment I cannot even afford protein powder...

 

[GaryWary]

It's mostly just bullshit stuff like exagerating my responsabilities at a previous job

That's the kind of lying I am talking about.

 

[gorilla_boy]

Gorilla boy.

This is what I see when you post.

This person is on your Ignore List. To view this post click [here]

I clicked out of interest this time. To see if you had become normal. You haven't. So carry on responding to my posts. I am sure everyone finds you oh so clever and witty. But I on the other hand ain't gonna read any more of your fucking brainless shit.

Love Dr. GW

You are lying, just like on your resume. You read it all. You're like a deer in the headlights.

I've missed you my little survivor!

 

[gorilla_boy]

Even with shit loads of effort - there can still be holes in your cv. The job market is very competitive. If others are lying a little then potentially you could lose out. Why not get that edge yourself?

So if everyone else is lying, it's ok for you to do it?

Don't engineers take some sort of ethics exam for their P.eng?

 

[Warik]

Why not get that edge yourself?

Because people like me would fire you strictly out of principle once they found out you were lying and can't keep up with the employee image your resume gave you.

-Warik

 

[gorilla_boy]

That's the kind of lying I am talking about.

It's still lying, oh pious one.

 

[manny78]

many many many times. Especially when I was 18 and had almost no experience in serious jobs.

 

[HappyScrappy]

in the interview for my current job I was totally honest with them and on my resume and they gave me 3 hours worth of tests - I did well on the stuff I knew, and I failed all the stuff I had never seen before.
thought for sure I'd lost the interview and might as well have gone home when they asked me a question about something on my resume and I was so tired from the long interview and all the tests that I spaced and couldn't get it, and it was a *really* basic question.
I just calmly apologized and said that I was tired and honestly knew that, but wasn't going to be able to get that at the time.
I figured the guy would ask me to leave right then, but he got this big smile on his face and told me I interviewed well and he extended an offer right there.

very strange.

 

[TheProject]

in the interview for my current job I was totally honest with them and on my resume and they gave me 3 hours worth of tests - I did well on the stuff I knew, and I failed all the stuff I had never seen before.
thought for sure I'd lost the interview and might as well have gone home when they asked me a question about something on my resume and I was so tired from the long interview and all the tests that I spaced and couldn't get it, and it was a *really* basic question.
I just calmly apologized and said that I was tired and honestly knew that, but wasn't going to be able to get that at the time.
I figured the guy would ask me to leave right then, but he got this big smile on his face and told me I interviewed well and he extended an offer right there.

very strange.

Is this the job that you've since grown to hate? Just curious...

 

[HappyScrappy]

lol - yes.
the current one.
it is less the job - programming is programming - when you are a ninja like me
it is the people I can't stand.

think Office Space.

 

[TheProject]

lol - yes.
the current one.
it is less the job - programming is programming - when you are a ninja like me
it is the people I can't stand.

think Office Space.

IT Ninja, huh? Reminds me of a comic strip...

I know what you mean about the place. It's not so much the job I mind, it's the idiots that call me. We're selling some old PC's (Pentium 180's) for $20, and people keep thinking they can run WinME, Win2K, OfficeXP, current games, etc. on them.

<sigh>

Oh well, it pays the bills.

 

[Spanky11]

Because people like me would fire you strictly out of principle once they found out you were lying and can't keep up with the employee image your resume gave you.

-Warik

Warik, you seem to be an opinionated little shit...let me guess, you still in college, right?