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The current system of job seeking often requires to lie on resume. It is even being highly recommended by people that coach people for job seeking, although with some moderation of course.

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[โ€“] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'd say it's not okay to lie, but embellishment is encouraged.

For example, I hire programmers. If you put on your resume you know some language or framework, I'm probably going to test you on it. If you can't code hello world, or something basic I'm going to bissed off.

Now, if your role was technically something like a jr java engineer but you put on there that you were a mid level, meh I'm not going to check. As long as your skills are roughly in line I'll let you through to the next round.

[โ€“] intensely_human@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Iโ€™m not sure if this is embellishment or not but I wrote some sales software for a moving company. Then they used it for 15 years, and my resume now says I wrote software that brought in like $30m to the company.

[โ€“] fades 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lies? Excuse me?? That 30 mil bit is absolutely (technically) true!!!