biggest lie on your CV?

artful_codger

what's the biggest lie you ever put on your CV, and did you get rumbled in an interview?

experiMental

Em.... man, this thread is asking for a closure

Nobody will ever reply. Put it in After Hours or something, or 4chan.org - you are completely anonymous there, only the most hardened hackers will catch you

A lot of people lied in their CV's, and rightly so. The reason is, that some employers don't put much consideration into their requirements, so to get the job, people just make stuff up in their CV.

holmyster

that i'm honest

karlog

Good with customer's

Blazer

that I will work


my motto is "Do as little as possible, for as much as possible, for as long as possible".

Unfortunately I'm not in the public sector otherwise I'd be living the dream

marco murphy

I never lie I do exagerate things though, using powerful english.

Fringe

I used to do MUN and I said I had a huge interest in the political world. That was the biggest lie. I only did MUN really for a bit of public speaking and to have some craic. I took that out though after realising I didn't want an interviewer asking me about the current state of Palestine because I wouldn't have anything to say.

nitrogen

Considering employers dress up most roles, and lie about future tasks, you're only harming yourself if you don't at least exaggerate on your past experience to match the job.

mikemac

My job has one of those fancy titles that bears no relation to what I do.

Tbh, I think their job description has more lies then my CV!

Thoie

My only "lie" is a slight omission - I stopped putting my birthdate on my CV years ago. I got into my chosen area relatively young (nothing spectacular, just at the time I was about 3 years younger than people traditionally expected for the amount of experience). At the time I found I got more interviews from the places that didn't know my date of birth than from those that did. It's purely anecdotal evidence though, and most people could have worked out my rough age from noting my year of graduation if they'd felt like it.