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One of our vendors sent a guy claiming to be THE man for the job. Interestingly, he couldn't do things that interns did. We had to have some tough discussions with the offshore partner to remove the guy. He accepted that he had faked.
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I got one who claimed I'd worked for him, when we were members of the same team - of which I was the lead.Originally posted by MyUserName View Post...
Although I recently read the work history on Linked In of an old colleague and noticed he had claimed credit for two projects he had not done, I know that because I chuffing well did them!!!
I didn't confirm that one.
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But this is fairly standard for most people, isn't it? I mean look at how many 'senior' software engineers there are compared to just software engineers.
Although I recently read the work history on Linked In of an old colleague and noticed he had claimed credit for two projects he had not done, I know that because I chuffing well did them!!!
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So he still has 9 fake CVs for every real one....Uncle: See phani--99.99% of Resumes in SAP are fake--so i can find & remove fake resumes in seconds--But if i do so--i may have 1 out of 1000...Then think from my point of view what i need to do? i know that this resume is fake but no chance for me except forwarding it to my people...
I have had some brilliant fake CVs come my way. One guy listed many years of experience with various OS and database versions, when you correlated the information with his age it meant he started work when he was 7, stopped roughly when he went to university, and hadn't done anything new for 10 years.
Also quite common is people claiming to be far more senior than they actually were. You can usually take them apart in the interview, when you try and drill into the design "they" did it often turns out they did support or wrote test cases and know very little about it.
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