Lying on your CV to get a better job
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OMITN said:
For some people lying on their CVs is a career ending move - Tania Bains was a solicitor and, like the chap in the OP, was apparently pretty good at her job.
Trouble is she'd lied on her CV to get in the door (law remains highly competitive- god knows why, it's an awful job). And because that's deemed to be dishonesty it was a one way street out of the profession for her.
So, after the costs of university and law school and then having an established CV she's out on her ear and working out what else she can do with her life....
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for the OP, while yours may not be so highly regulated as this part of the law, nonetheless you should protect yourself at work by having an off the record conversation with someone more senior.
This is the stance that my company takes... we work in Finance and have to have a level of trust and integrity, for someone to outright lie, it doesnt matter if they are great at their job or not, the trust is gone and its usually an instant removal.Trouble is she'd lied on her CV to get in the door (law remains highly competitive- god knows why, it's an awful job). And because that's deemed to be dishonesty it was a one way street out of the profession for her.
So, after the costs of university and law school and then having an established CV she's out on her ear and working out what else she can do with her life....
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for the OP, while yours may not be so highly regulated as this part of the law, nonetheless you should protect yourself at work by having an off the record conversation with someone more senior.
I hired a guy a few years ago, he didn't turn out well and we let him go during probation.
The company then got bought out and changed names. Few years later someone in another team was recruiting and had a CV in they wanted me to look at because this person had worked for me before. It was the guy above, he had completely embellished his CV. Where he had worked for us for 2 months, he put down 6 on his CV and then where he described what he done he said he worked on a load of stuff that just wasn't true. Some stuff he had nicked from the other team members and others he had just made up. Made me wonder what else on his CV was completely bulls
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The company then got bought out and changed names. Few years later someone in another team was recruiting and had a CV in they wanted me to look at because this person had worked for me before. It was the guy above, he had completely embellished his CV. Where he had worked for us for 2 months, he put down 6 on his CV and then where he described what he done he said he worked on a load of stuff that just wasn't true. Some stuff he had nicked from the other team members and others he had just made up. Made me wonder what else on his CV was completely bulls
t.Du1point8 said:
This is the stance that my company takes... we work in Finance and have to have a level of trust and integrity, for someone to outright lie, it doesnt matter if they are great at their job or not, the trust is gone and its usually an instant removal.
Agree with this approach. Someone who is prepared to fabricate their CV will no doubt still or cause trouble later on. Gassing Station | Jobs & Employment Matters | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff