Reply to: CV integrity?

[Diver]

anonymous forum = anonymous poll

WHS

anonymous forearm = anonymous pole

[oscarose]

Oi! Why isn't the poll anonymous?

I thought confessions were between me, the priest and God, not you bunch of tossers too !

anonymous forum = anonymous poll

[Diver]

Oi! Why isn't the poll anonymous?

I thought confessions were between me, the priest and God, not you bunch of tossers too !

Hmm! Fairy Tail eh?

[Platypus]

Oi! Why isn't the poll anonymous?

I thought confessions were between me, the priest and God, not you bunch of tossers too !

[oscarose]

You can portray the work you've done in the most advantageous way without lying.

A few years ago, I slightly exaggerated my Oracle skills to get a contract (I’m mostly SQL Server). As the concepts are the same just a different toolkit, I put initial rustiness down to different versions and I was fine and indeed got several extensions.

I was 100% confident I could fulfil the role and that was my only concern. Forget the morals old boy, I’ve got a mortgage to pay.

[Diver]

100% true. For a given value of "true" of course.

So you really did single handedly write the Mars Lander program for NASA then

[NotAllThere]

100% true. For a given value of "true" of course.

[d000hg]

Agreed, but your CV is the sales pitch to get you in the door and a bit of ‘flowering’ up does no harm IMO.

You can portray the work you've done in the most advantageous way without lying.

[The Spartan]

Fortunately being a tester there seems to be plenty of work out there, so I see what you say by it's your sales pitch. Therefore I tend to ensure I eveidenced as much as possible whilst still keeping it concise and readable.

[oscarose]

A scummy agent rewrote it

More like 'Complete fairy story' then...

[Sysman]

This poll needs another option:

• A scummy agent rewrote it

Which is why I voted AndyW wrote it

[rd409]

I am work in a very niche market, and every one knows everyone. Can't help but be honest. As a matter of fact, never needed to lie on the CV so far. Hope it stays like that.

[Diver]

have the (so far) 8 people who said their cv only contains the 'truth' told a fib!?

Considering that there are only a handful of us in the UK and the industry, and project list, is very very limited (most of us in the industry know each other either personally or by reputation) it would be very difficult to pad out our CV's as you'd be found out almost immediately as everyone who sends a CV into our consultancy will in their list projects that several of us have worked on.

[Lockhouse]

Agreed, but your CV is the sales pitch to get you in the door and a bit of ‘flowering’ up does no harm IMO.

WOS. It's not lying, it's selling.

[BolshieBastard]

have the (so far) 8 people who said their cv only contains the 'truth' told a fib!?