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for my fellow office job havers: what are the dos and don’ts of lying on your resume? (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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everyone always says lie on your resume, and i agree that there’s no reason not to. i’ve never done it before though so i want to know what i can and can’t get away with.

for example, if i’ve been out of work since january, can i just lie and say i’m still employed by the company i quit working at in january and make it look like i don’t have an 8-month gap on my resume? or is the HR person at the place i’m applying going to be able to figure out that’s a lie?

also please give tips on what are some good lies to add, how to punch up normal looking resume shit, etc

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I was brought up to believe lying by omission was worse than lying by saying something you believe to be incorrect,

I don't think I've ever heard this posotopm before. I think it depends on context and the nature of the lie.

If they're asking about your front end experience, saying you know Javascript when you don't is worse than not mentioning you're kind of bad at CSS.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You did not grow up with controlling abusive parents?

Interestingly, after beating lying out of us unless it was admitting to "crimes" we didn't do, they were extremely annoyed that all of their kids struggled to get jobs

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Nope. My parents weren't perfect, but they weren't bad in that kind of way.