SomeKindOfGrass: I think u have to lie abit in your resume. If so must show that u’ve experience in it.
I: Did u lie in ur resume?
She had told me she was looking for better pay jobs.
SomeKindOfGrass: So chances of getting int will b higher
SomeKindOfGrass: no need coz i’ve the experience i need
SomeKindOfGrass: u r different coz looking for diff things
SomeKindOfGrass: thats life
SomeKindOfGrass: just my piece of advice
SomeKindOfGrass: i feel your degree abit wasted
SomeKindOfGrass: y not fully utilized it
SomeKindOfGrass: i know alot of IT ppl earns very high income la
SomeKindOfGrass: consider it all over again la
I: tx 4 ur
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I: piece of advice
SomeKindOfGrass: aiya
SomeKindOfGrass: no joke la
Who to take advice from?
Now would you take advice from someone who is not satisfied in current job?
Would you think advice from people who had been down (broke and jobless) and up (own countless $$ and manage companies/people) are more valid? They’ve seen the view from the top penthouse and looked up from the longkang.
Only people who are at the top of the career game?
Beach bums and beggars? After all, if you know what would kill you, you’ll do everything to avoid it.
I know what you did last summer
A lot of people nip and tuck experiences and education in their resumes. Add in some spices of achievements, minus all the hiccups, mistakes in resume and cover letter. Think positive, after all.
Say you’ve added an experience which you exaggerated and you were asked during interview. Suppose you fibbed brilliantly or the interviewer didn’t have enough instinct to know that you’ve lied. Suppose you are hired (really!) and in 1 project, you didn’t know what to do and others asked you, “Eh, Smart, why you didn’t do this? Didn’t you know already from your (previous experience, skills, edu, etc)?”
Would you fault your company hiding some info from you (that can cause you pain in the ass) if you had lied in your application in the first place?
Amy said, “I got 2nd Upper Class only.” Amy took the course from a University in UK.
His manager asked him, “Why didn’t you get 1st Upper Class?”
Amy’s eyes bulged out. As far as he knew, his manager had studied and worked in UK for several years. Didn’t his manager knew there’s only 1st Class, 2nd Upper and Lower Class, 3rd Class, etc but no 1st Upper or Lower Class in UK education system?
People may think “Wow, such credentials” but when something happens that shows the liar is not that competent, people would lose their respect soon.
Who cares about a piece of paper?
But there’s a possibility that nobody would discover what you put in your resume once you work. After all, who has the time to check the resume so often? Resume is just a paper. Some people are so resourceful that you never knew they altered their history!
If you want to lie, lie with backup info on hand. Lie on your past and first few jobs, not the current and latest ones. Interviewers wouldn’t be so duh to ask about those experiences because they just don’t care.
- Wong, a good looking guy who has been in IT for at least 7yrs.
1 of my favourite lecturers told us a story about his friend.
“This friend, he lied so much in his resume. He never worked in certain companies but he added them. Then during the interview, the 1st time it was ok. Then he had 2nd followed up interview and the interviewer told him, “You lied on this and that. We’ve checked with the companies and you didn’t do what you wrote here.” So how?”
He was hired. “That’s the kind of people we are looking for,” the interviewer said.
The position was for sales.
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