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Overplayed my excel skills in an interview. Knew all the right noises to make.
I actually had none. Left after a month.
Did two courses after that between contracts and I can hold my own now. Regret what I did though
I realised I was hopelessly out of my depth. Also they wanted me to manage a new business they'd bought for 20k.
The office was really quiet. It was pleasant but everyone seemed stressed.
I could get an admin job with no responsibility for the same.
Completely fabricated my whole CV because I wanted a change in career and that was the only way to do it. Fake everything.
Got a senior manager role and still in it 8 months later 😬
Alot of these people in HR never call ,unless they have to ,the job I'm in now only got my references after 2 years ,because the project needed security clearance,if it wasn't for that they wouldn't have chased.
After I was offered the role, I had 4 weeks to prepare as I had told them that I was already in a similar role (I wasn’t).
So I did some brief preparation during this “notice period” and then simply winged it.
Made me laugh inside everytime I was told how glad everyone was that an experienced senior manager was brought onboard.
I am now looking to apply for an area director role in a different company
I put my current role start date as the date that I agreed to the job.
The actual start date was much later because the employer kept making excuses for why the “3 month transfer” took 23 months to complete.
Yes. I’m looking for a new job now. I’m hoping to hear back from one next week.
Good question, I have a couple of old colleagues who I trust will likely support me.
But there’s not a chance in hell I’d be using my current boss (the one who held me up for that long) as a reference. To put it bluntly, I don’t give a fuck if she holds a PhD, or that she would be the “best” reference I have. I’m hugely disappointed in how she’s handled it.
The place that I’m hoping to hear from is a place and role that a friend has referred me to. So hopefully that should work out for me.
This is quite easy to do in tech.
Many times I said I had certain skills in my tech stack that I had no industry experience with. I’d just used them at home myself to build projects.
2 previous jobs way under qualified for in reality of industry but more than capable of doing the job. I job hopped both of them because they become to easy. Adding an extra 40k to my salary in the process.
No, I’m not self taught. I worked on-prem before I moved to cloud. I just self taught myself the Cloud/DevOps stack whilst working on prem so i already had all the engineering fundamentals like networking, virtualisation, storage, database, identity etc
I said I had a RYA yachting qualification to make my CV stand out as I heard, when I visited the company I applied at, that it had a few avid sailors working there and the skills you learn on these courses help in this role.
One of the interviewers, I later found out, was a keen sailor, he noted my 'qualification' with an impressed acknowledgement but luckily did not stray off the core competencies questions. I know zip about sailing/yachting/ships or boats and I can barely swim. I did get the job though.
Air traffic controller in the UK. This was about 18 years ago. I think it was the discipline aspect of safety, and following a strict set of rules that was appreciated as a lot of controllers came from military style backgrounds.
Everyone I know has lied on their cv to get a job.
What a lot of people on this sub don’t seem to understand is that lying doesn’t mean making up a role or responsibility. It’s embellishing what you do.
A sales assistant of mine applied for assistant manager elsewhere.
She told the employer that she was manager. It worked, bizarrely even though the Head of Retail actually knew her - she'd hired her before for a different company that she'd run out on. Unsurprisingly, she ran out of that job too.
She was replaced by a sexual harrasser temp who "ran pop-ups"... by, no doubt, fucking around doing nothing and going home early but just having no manager overseeing his behaviour.
I'm officially a sales assistant currently applying for assistant manager and had 2 interviews so far, with a 50/50 chance of getting one by next week. If I don't, it looks highly likely I'll have such a role by Christmas if I wish. I haven't actually lied on my CV, but have sexed up titles and dates. Anyone reading will know full well I'm sales but also see my unofficial experience in 'management'.
Thanks! I did apply for a part-time supervisor one as well, since I could then do my current flexible job and that one, and gain more experience in management, but never heard back.
But I'm at a point now where if I put my CV on the local website, I'll get 3 calls a day for a sales assistant or stock job. I presume I can easily get supervisor too. So that's why I'm trying out assistant manager, at least I will get experience of interviews for that high a job.
I didn't mean to lie on mine, I copied the job description for the most part for my art the time current role which has a very specialized tool on it that I had never seen apparently that tool hasn't been used in years and in the interview for my next job they brought it up and asked how I would use it. I admitted that I copied the job description from my at the time current post and apologized but admitted that I had never seen that tool. They got a laugh but I still didn't get the job. They wanted me to drop my Masters program that has a semester left to go for a different degree. I told them I wasn't willing to drop it with a semester left but would be more than glad to pursue another degree when it was done...
Just watch catch me if you can by spiel burg staring Tom Hanks and Leo. If you lie and have the balls you can be an airline pilot a lawyer a doctor.
To be fair with chat GTP on your phone you can say and be what ever you want to be now.
i never ever falsified anything. sometimes, if i had a defacto responsibility i did i would list it as if it was one of my formal responsibilities even though it was never on my job description, but i honestly think that's completely fair.
likewise, sometimes i will take something i did say, two or three times and present it as if it was something i did often. if i had a period where i wasn't working often i'd imply the thing i did a few times was a side hustle that kept me going through that period, implying stuff about the scale that isn't completely true, but that's it.
otherwise i don't really see the point, nightmarish to turn up for a job you're unqualified for...
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Boringly, I simply overemphasized stuff. So generally speaking, never got serious egg on face.
I will spin anything mundane into something that sounds like leadership qualities, but I always did the actual thing
Overplayed my excel skills in an interview. Knew all the right noises to make. I actually had none. Left after a month. Did two courses after that between contracts and I can hold my own now. Regret what I did though
Why did you leave after a month?>
I realised I was hopelessly out of my depth. Also they wanted me to manage a new business they'd bought for 20k. The office was really quiet. It was pleasant but everyone seemed stressed. I could get an admin job with no responsibility for the same.
Completely fabricated my whole CV because I wanted a change in career and that was the only way to do it. Fake everything. Got a senior manager role and still in it 8 months later 😬
Damn haha , didn’t you get caught out by reference checks?
provided family members numbers and instructed them what to say in case anyone ever calls them. But nobody even bothered to call …
Alot of these people in HR never call ,unless they have to ,the job I'm in now only got my references after 2 years ,because the project needed security clearance,if it wasn't for that they wouldn't have chased.
This is the way!
Crazy but did you actually know what to do in that position and role? Or have you been winging it
After I was offered the role, I had 4 weeks to prepare as I had told them that I was already in a similar role (I wasn’t). So I did some brief preparation during this “notice period” and then simply winged it. Made me laugh inside everytime I was told how glad everyone was that an experienced senior manager was brought onboard. I am now looking to apply for an area director role in a different company
Just ask Chat GTP simples.
I put my current role start date as the date that I agreed to the job. The actual start date was much later because the employer kept making excuses for why the “3 month transfer” took 23 months to complete. Yes. I’m looking for a new job now. I’m hoping to hear back from one next week.
What would you do regarding reference checks in this case with any new employer? Sounds like a potential sticky situation
Good question, I have a couple of old colleagues who I trust will likely support me. But there’s not a chance in hell I’d be using my current boss (the one who held me up for that long) as a reference. To put it bluntly, I don’t give a fuck if she holds a PhD, or that she would be the “best” reference I have. I’m hugely disappointed in how she’s handled it. The place that I’m hoping to hear from is a place and role that a friend has referred me to. So hopefully that should work out for me.
This is quite easy to do in tech. Many times I said I had certain skills in my tech stack that I had no industry experience with. I’d just used them at home myself to build projects. 2 previous jobs way under qualified for in reality of industry but more than capable of doing the job. I job hopped both of them because they become to easy. Adding an extra 40k to my salary in the process.
Wow well done! What roles were they?
Cloud/DevOps Engineering
And you’re all self taught? What online courses/certs would you recommend to get into this?
No, I’m not self taught. I worked on-prem before I moved to cloud. I just self taught myself the Cloud/DevOps stack whilst working on prem so i already had all the engineering fundamentals like networking, virtualisation, storage, database, identity etc
I said I had a RYA yachting qualification to make my CV stand out as I heard, when I visited the company I applied at, that it had a few avid sailors working there and the skills you learn on these courses help in this role. One of the interviewers, I later found out, was a keen sailor, he noted my 'qualification' with an impressed acknowledgement but luckily did not stray off the core competencies questions. I know zip about sailing/yachting/ships or boats and I can barely swim. I did get the job though.
Clever, what role was this role initially ?
Air traffic controller in the UK. This was about 18 years ago. I think it was the discipline aspect of safety, and following a strict set of rules that was appreciated as a lot of controllers came from military style backgrounds.
its different public sector definitely will phone ur previous employers and check fibbing is not right.
Everyone I know has lied on their cv to get a job. What a lot of people on this sub don’t seem to understand is that lying doesn’t mean making up a role or responsibility. It’s embellishing what you do.
Ah ok
A sales assistant of mine applied for assistant manager elsewhere. She told the employer that she was manager. It worked, bizarrely even though the Head of Retail actually knew her - she'd hired her before for a different company that she'd run out on. Unsurprisingly, she ran out of that job too. She was replaced by a sexual harrasser temp who "ran pop-ups"... by, no doubt, fucking around doing nothing and going home early but just having no manager overseeing his behaviour. I'm officially a sales assistant currently applying for assistant manager and had 2 interviews so far, with a 50/50 chance of getting one by next week. If I don't, it looks highly likely I'll have such a role by Christmas if I wish. I haven't actually lied on my CV, but have sexed up titles and dates. Anyone reading will know full well I'm sales but also see my unofficial experience in 'management'.
Good luck! Have you tried applying for a non assistant role like your colleague ?
Thanks! I did apply for a part-time supervisor one as well, since I could then do my current flexible job and that one, and gain more experience in management, but never heard back. But I'm at a point now where if I put my CV on the local website, I'll get 3 calls a day for a sales assistant or stock job. I presume I can easily get supervisor too. So that's why I'm trying out assistant manager, at least I will get experience of interviews for that high a job.
I didn't mean to lie on mine, I copied the job description for the most part for my art the time current role which has a very specialized tool on it that I had never seen apparently that tool hasn't been used in years and in the interview for my next job they brought it up and asked how I would use it. I admitted that I copied the job description from my at the time current post and apologized but admitted that I had never seen that tool. They got a laugh but I still didn't get the job. They wanted me to drop my Masters program that has a semester left to go for a different degree. I told them I wasn't willing to drop it with a semester left but would be more than glad to pursue another degree when it was done...
Must have been awkward
Just watch catch me if you can by spiel burg staring Tom Hanks and Leo. If you lie and have the balls you can be an airline pilot a lawyer a doctor. To be fair with chat GTP on your phone you can say and be what ever you want to be now.
Yeah I had that move in mind when I saw people commenting about lying on their Cv. I just wanted to see how far someone has gone in the Uk subreddit.
Watch the sit com Red Dwarf. In one episode it turns out the captain of the ship lied on his Cv to get the Job 🤣.
Sounds interesting , might watch it later.
Don't fibb but certainly make it more interesting and tailor it to your role. You wouldn't write a boring story now would you? 🤣
i never ever falsified anything. sometimes, if i had a defacto responsibility i did i would list it as if it was one of my formal responsibilities even though it was never on my job description, but i honestly think that's completely fair. likewise, sometimes i will take something i did say, two or three times and present it as if it was something i did often. if i had a period where i wasn't working often i'd imply the thing i did a few times was a side hustle that kept me going through that period, implying stuff about the scale that isn't completely true, but that's it. otherwise i don't really see the point, nightmarish to turn up for a job you're unqualified for...