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Career pro-tip: Lie on your resume!

Even if you don't agree with this guy, you have to admit his credentials are impressive!

Please advise, my landlord won't accept LinkedIn DMs as rent payment.

Is anyone gonna tell him that they just check after messaging people ?

He's talking about an MBA, not an actual degree.

They asked me how well I understood theoretical physics. I said I had a theoretical degree in physics. They said welcome aboard.

Things techbros imagine they've invented:

• Trains
• Friendship
• Fraud

What if I already have a master's but still can't find a job?

This is the kind of out of the box thinking that the team needs right now. Unfortunately, you're fired.

I'm pretty sure this is the opening plot to the TV show Community.

I was a hiring manager in aerospace for decades. We for sure checked transcripts before a start date.

I also just don't get people who lie on their resumes. That would cause me so much anxiety. Even for things I have training or experience with, I always worry people are going to expect me to be more proficient than I am. I had I guy put that he was fluent in a computer language that I'm not sure he'd ever seen, so everyone was always frustrated with him and he eventually got laid off.

My unpopular opinion (and I'll eat the downvotes) is that CV fraudsters don't get prosecuted nearly enough.

It's not just faceless billionaire companies you're fucking over, it's the other candidates who actually put in the effort to become competent at the job you lied to get.

I'll never get my head around the popularity of the idea that lying on a CV doesn't make you a liar.

To be fair there’s a whole lot of wealthy people like Trump who bought their degree anyway

The DMs have been flowing in ... from scammers.

DMs from who, though? Recruiting agencies? Those aren't job offers, those are people who want to doctor your resume even further and some it at companies going they'll get paid for it

Some companies do background checks.

But my MSc was fully funded and I got to spend a year in cheap accommodation with subsidised beer, free fibre internet, and local Counter-Strike opponents.

i onced followed someone profile on linkein i was with in my las semester almost a decade ago, and he was totally bsing his lab experience, because he told me before hand he dint have much or any lab experience, then every semester i saw him adding 1 years to his resume, then after he added 2 years, he was eventually hired. yea you have to bs your way.

No one checks. No one questions.

Any Fortune 500 company is going to check, particularly if you're aiming for a job in upper management.

And if you're working a government contract, you're almost certainly going to get a background check for any kind of security clearance.

As someone that works in academia, you'd be surprised how many academics never get their qualifications sighted for employment at a university. I've heard a few stories of renowned individuals admitting to fake degrees before retirement, suddenly rendering their highly cited papers ignored after 20 years of publication.

I have an old friend who worked in advertising for decades in Montreal. I talked to him about career advice once and I remember him saying something like this.

He said he just jumped into a low entry level position as a young 20 year old in the 70s, worked like a dog in a bunch of positions and eventually became a high level manager. He had a small college degree and he said that in his first position, they were just looking for someone .. anyone .. and he got in. No one ever checked his background or education ... no one ever asked for documentation or anything. From that start, he just worked day in, day out and after about five years, he becomes a leading manager. After that point if anyone asked about his education, he pointed to his track record working for the company. 40 years later he retired with a wealthy pension.

The verification is the Harvard sweatshirt you wear to the interview.

I once had a coworker whose CV said she had a BSc from Oxford University.

Clearly neither she nor our hiring manager knew much about Oxford.