Reading this made me think: if someone from 1900 were to see this paragraph, it would made absolutely no sense whatsoever. It's interesting how new slang and technology words develop so quickly.
We created a fake language to root out resume liars
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#12I admire resume liars. The job market isn't fair and you should do anything you can to get ahead. (Employers are going to pull tricks like this, so why not? Just be smart about it)
Please keep in mind that resume padding is often not done by the candidate but by headhunters who want to depict their square peg candidate as the most perfect round peg ever imagined.
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#13I admire resume liars. The job market isn't fair and you should do anything you can to get ahead. (Employers are going to pull tricks like this, so why not? Just be smart about it)
While I respect the virtue of selling yourself, I think the logic of "everyone is doing it" has been used by many people to do many bad things. I for one hold myself to a far higher standard than this, and I think I'd be far less happy in general if I let my dignity slip like this.
I read something recently that said if you feel like you're "getting away with it" then you're probably doing something wrong.
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#14Reading this made me think: if someone from 1900 were to see this paragraph, it would made absolutely no sense whatsoever. It's interesting how new slang and technology words develop so quickly.
It works in reverse, too: slangy school-newspaper style writing from back then is almost incomprehensible now.
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#15I know someone who has a certain of this specifically for phone interviews. He'll ask if the candidate knows about FakeTech, which has one website at the top of the search results... Woe unto the interviewee who recites the facts they find there...
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#16I admire resume liars. The job market isn't fair and you should do anything you can to get ahead. (Employers are going to pull tricks like this, so why not? Just be smart about it)
A relative works in a country where lying on CV and during interviews by hugely inflating one’s skills is the norm. It only fools European expatriate managers with no knowledge of the country. Local HR and experienced expatriates know about it and adjust their accordingly. When everyone is lying, it doesn’t make a difference anymore.
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#17I admire resume liars. The job market isn't fair and you should do anything you can to get ahead. (Employers are going to pull tricks like this, so why not? Just be smart about it)
That's a fantastic way to keep getting hired by the kinds of employers who will screw you over and keep your world view intact.
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#18"MOVA" is literally a "language" in Ukrainian
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#19I admire resume liars. The job market isn't fair and you should do anything you can to get ahead. (Employers are going to pull tricks like this, so why not? Just be smart about it)
While I respect the virtue of selling yourself, I think the logic of "everyone is doing it" has been used by many people to do many bad things. I for one hold myself to a far higher standard than this, and I think I'd be far less happy in general if I let my dignity slip like this.
While lying on your resume is often defended as: “Everyone does it, employers expects it”, I don’t think it’s nearly as common as people think. It may be market/country specific, but simply assuming that it’s something you do is idiotic.
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#20Long long time ago in a galaxy far far away I used requirement in job postings “10 years of Java experience” (when Java was about 7 years old) as a filter: people who wrote me complaining about unrealistic requirement got interviews; people who sent resumes with 15 years of Java went into /dev/null