Lying on cv's and application forms?

[Clutchy]

Anyone done it, what have you gotten away with?

It must happen now and then, some of the cv's I've gone through and then quizzed them on it, not asked for proof (do many companies want proof?) and they simply don't know what they're talking about, yet have it listed as a qualification, skill or experience in.
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[ocatoro]

i've filled in some employment gaps and got jobs in the past. feel pretty steady in my current job though, so hopefully i'll be all rosy from here on in.

one a lot of people are doing now, i hear, is putting "period of personal study"... instead of unemployment.
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[ocatoro]

yeah i was told gaps look suspect. like you left or were fired from previous job and nobody wanted you. so "why should we?" ....

if you can fill your gaps with something seemingly worthwhile, then it goes without saying, you're more employable.

i had one where i genuinely did a uni course, so had a year of study on there. and then another 8 months where my only income was freelance journo for various car and boxing magazines which was barely a "job", and it felt very much like unemployment most of the time, but it looked ok on the cv. the boxing ones came first, and were unpaid too. but it was "work", all the same.


anything that looks or smells like work will do for the purposes of filling gaps in employment history.

qualifications are another matter, and i've never had them checked even though i've never lied about them. I have a diploma in japanese, but not once have i been asked to say something in japanese haha

what would you put though? "yeah i'm a qualified plumber mate"... wouldn't take long before you were found out would it even if they didn't check your qualification
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[Minty]

I left school in 1990, I have no recollection what i got other than a B in GCSE Design Technology.

I remember that one because it was the only one that was C or above.

Lying on CV's is inevitable. The scale of the lie is directly proportional to the role being filled. Telling someone you got a C in Maths 25 years ago when applying for a job at B&Q is never going to cause bother.

Saying you are a surgeon with 15 years exeperience, when applying for a role at a Hospital is somewhat of a larger scale lie.
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[st3v3]

Never lied on my CV or in interview, means I can't be tripped up with facts later on.

I recently attended a meeting tho where a careers consultant was curious about a few of our CVs so when I showed mine to clarify it was pukka then she spent a week dissecting it, eventually re-arranged it to show employment of longevity rather than skills suiting jobs I apply for on the side.

Guess these days employers are valueing people's attributes rather than proven skills?
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[instigator]

I work in skilled positions which require a Batchelors engineering degree at minimum. I have yet to be asked for a copy in the 4 roles I've had thus far, two of which are for very large Tech companies.

[Alpha-9]

Gaps in my CV I was just honest and said I did cash in hand labouring to make ends meet as I searched for stable work

No tax questions yet
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[arry]

[JonB]

[Hetzer]

Lots more people are being prosecuted for lying on their CVs these days ("Gaining a pecuniary advantage").
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[arry]

[c_dug]

Never lied, I'll happily play up the truth though.

I start a new job around the 14th of next month as a maintenance engineer. I've worked in nothing but retail for the last 6 years, I got mediocre GCSE's and got kicked out of my first college. On paper I'm not the right candidate.

The role is internal which helped get me the interview, from there I just expanded on anything I thought was remotely relevant and hoped they liked the cut of my jib.

I get a 30% salary increase and paid for courses in a relevant field of my choosing (probably going with metal work). WIN.

The moral?

Don't under-sell yourself, but be sure you can live up to the expectations that you give. For me, I know I can do the job, I just had to remove any doubt in the interviewers minds.
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[cimbian]

I employed a 22 year old based on his CV and an interview in which he verbally backed-up his CV and I felt he would be trainable; however, I also followed-up on his references.

His references came-back and revealed a tissue of lies and he turned-out to be untrainable. Out the door he went and good riddance to bad stuff.
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[Clutchy]

Yeah I agree references should and usually get checked, however the previous employer isn't by law allowed to say they're bad, only praise. However my boss just said if anyone rings up and wants to use us as a reference and they were bad:

Then say I cannot answer that question through the risk of slandering the applicant

Only do this if they are a genuine danger and terrible workers
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[Islander]

[arry]

[Ichy]

I don't have a clue where half of the certificates are. To be fair though it would be fairly hard to fake knowledge in the roles I've worked in.

I read a lot of CV's and you tend to find that people tend to distort reality rather than out and out lie.
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[Redoko]

Nope. Pretty demoralising to pretend to be someone you're not.
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[duhawkz]

[lozzypop1]

[Kickstart]

Hi

One place I worked at kept all the CVs they were sent (mainly programming roles). Next time the CV of that bod arrived they cross checked it with previous ones that had arrived. Made it easy to spot liars (who didn't get to the interview stage).

All the best

Keith
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[Frost]

On mine i heavily implied i was hard working and competent. But i think that's a common fib

[Pete.]

Not having any qualifications means I never had to lie about them. 'Left school at 15 to start full time work' is all I put in there.

Mind you, my last job was 7 yrs and current one 15 so it hasn't come up all that often. Being a poor liar, and finding it difficult to deal with the shame of even being found out means that 'truth and be damned' is my favourite tactic.
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[Islander]