Bending the truth on your CV
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I know lying on your CV is bad form and can lead to dismissal but a bit of truth bending can't hurt...can it?
For example, the first thing I do in the morning is collect a fax from the machine, photocopy it and put it on our trader's desks ready for their arrival. It's very basic market data received from our Asian office.
Is it too much to describe this in my CV as 'collection and distribution of far-eastern market data'?
Anybody else bend the truth in this way?
For example, the first thing I do in the morning is collect a fax from the machine, photocopy it and put it on our trader's desks ready for their arrival. It's very basic market data received from our Asian office.
Is it too much to describe this in my CV as 'collection and distribution of far-eastern market data'?
Anybody else bend the truth in this way?
I have interviewed many people for technical IT roles and the experience outlined on their CV's has been nothing but a figment of their imagination. I have been down right rude to them and told them as much and thanks for wasting my time. This may sound harsh/unprofessional but so is writing a pack of lies and passing it off as your career history.
Best one was a supposed "pen tester", turns out he had watched over the shoulder as an IBM consultant had carried out a port scan, f**kin muppet.
Best one was a supposed "pen tester", turns out he had watched over the shoulder as an IBM consultant had carried out a port scan, f**kin muppet.
Jock Strap said:
I know lying on your CV is bad form and can lead to dismissal but a bit of truth bending can't hurt...can it?
For example, the first thing I do in the morning is collect a fax from the machine, photocopy it and put it on our trader's desks ready for their arrival. It's very basic market data received from our Asian office.
Is it too much to describe this in my CV as 'collection and distribution of far-eastern market data'?
Anybody else bend the truth in this way?
I'd use collation. That's bending and not outright lying as discussed above.For example, the first thing I do in the morning is collect a fax from the machine, photocopy it and put it on our trader's desks ready for their arrival. It's very basic market data received from our Asian office.
Is it too much to describe this in my CV as 'collection and distribution of far-eastern market data'?
Anybody else bend the truth in this way?
In the current climate, you have to do everything possible to get ahead. This includes whatever hotrodding/turboing/cheating you can get away with. It is harsh, but the bottom line is that it is dog eat dog, do you want to succeed or do you want to take the moral high ground and let someone else succeed?
It is a more positive thing to have had a few job interviews/applications and have the "right, how can I win" attitude, rather than that sick, hopeless feeling of being screwed.
Keep it up but never say anything you can't actually do in practice. Most CV checkers are pretty lazy, you can put all sorts of irrelevant bulls
t down that makes you look like "choice material". Take every opportunity to make the interviewer feel good about themselves and you'll be in there.
In my line, there are so many people, even if I turboed my CV and ran it on avgas, it would still come way down the list from all the wonderful people who are choosing to do something more safe/menial.....
It is a more positive thing to have had a few job interviews/applications and have the "right, how can I win" attitude, rather than that sick, hopeless feeling of being screwed.
Keep it up but never say anything you can't actually do in practice. Most CV checkers are pretty lazy, you can put all sorts of irrelevant bulls
t down that makes you look like "choice material". Take every opportunity to make the interviewer feel good about themselves and you'll be in there. In my line, there are so many people, even if I turboed my CV and ran it on avgas, it would still come way down the list from all the wonderful people who are choosing to do something more safe/menial.....
Pothole said:
Jock Strap said:
I know lying on your CV is bad form and can lead to dismissal but a bit of truth bending can't hurt...can it?
For example, the first thing I do in the morning is collect a fax from the machine, photocopy it and put it on our trader's desks ready for their arrival. It's very basic market data received from our Asian office.
Is it too much to describe this in my CV as 'collection and distribution of far-eastern market data'?
Anybody else bend the truth in this way?
I'd use collation. That's bending and not outright lying as discussed above.For example, the first thing I do in the morning is collect a fax from the machine, photocopy it and put it on our trader's desks ready for their arrival. It's very basic market data received from our Asian office.
Is it too much to describe this in my CV as 'collection and distribution of far-eastern market data'?
Anybody else bend the truth in this way?
If you lie abou specific skills, it will show up as soon as you start the job. plus your new employer may just phone your old one to get a reference, or he may be a pistonheads forum member.
I employ people for their skills, if someone mislead me in that way and it meant that they couldnt do what I had employed them for then their feet wouldn't touch and their next employer wouldnt be seeing a glowing reference!
I employ people for their skills, if someone mislead me in that way and it meant that they couldnt do what I had employed them for then their feet wouldn't touch and their next employer wouldnt be seeing a glowing reference!
ShadownINja said:
Pothole said:
Jock Strap said:
I know lying on your CV is bad form and can lead to dismissal but a bit of truth bending can't hurt...can it?
For example, the first thing I do in the morning is collect a fax from the machine, photocopy it and put it on our trader's desks ready for their arrival. It's very basic market data received from our Asian office.
Is it too much to describe this in my CV as 'collection and distribution of far-eastern market data'?
Anybody else bend the truth in this way?
I'd use collation. That's bending and not outright lying as discussed above.For example, the first thing I do in the morning is collect a fax from the machine, photocopy it and put it on our trader's desks ready for their arrival. It's very basic market data received from our Asian office.
Is it too much to describe this in my CV as 'collection and distribution of far-eastern market data'?
Anybody else bend the truth in this way?
sebo said:
richieboy3008 said:
I dropped out of uni after 2 years, I've removed that from my CV and said I went traveling
Surely every Tom, Dick and Harry have been all over the place these days. How would / do you deal with questions of where you were etc? Just lie some more? Si 330 said:
I run a tests now at interviews it's only short would take somebody with the necessary skills 10 to 15 mins. The panic on some peoples faces and the excuses they come up with when the try wriggle out of what they have stated they can do on there CV.
what, like use their correctly?Pothole said:
Si 330 said:
I run a tests now at interviews it's only short would take somebody with the necessary skills 10 to 15 mins. The panic on some peoples faces and the excuses they come up with when the try wriggle out of what they have stated they can do on there CV.
what, like use their correctly?
richieboy3008 said:
sebo said:
richieboy3008 said:
I dropped out of uni after 2 years, I've removed that from my CV and said I went traveling
Surely every Tom, Dick and Harry have been all over the place these days. How would / do you deal with questions of where you were etc? Just lie some more? V8mate said:
richieboy3008 said:
sebo said:
richieboy3008 said:
I dropped out of uni after 2 years, I've removed that from my CV and said I went traveling
Surely every Tom, Dick and Harry have been all over the place these days. How would / do you deal with questions of where you were etc? Just lie some more? Gassing Station | Jobs & Employment Matters | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff