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Do employers actually know or care about lying on resume? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by ZILtoid1991@kbin.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’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.

[–] Shard@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I'd call it a legit claim. I assume as well that over those 15 years you've had to debug it and update it along the way. So that's completely fair to put on your resume.

[–] fades@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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