How many have lied on their cv (resume)?

[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?