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Yet another reason to LIE
by cloudjacker 10y ago
Yet another reason to LIE
- mathattack 10y agoThis can come back to haunt you bigtime. If I knew someone materially lied on their resume during the hiring process, I'd terminate them immediately.
- cloudjacker 10y agoyes, every resume counselor also says that reality: get the equity, get out, get an exit the incongruences in your resume won't matter, the number of vacation days you took compared to someone else won't matter, the number of hours you stayed late won't matter solve the inefficiencies in the hiring process if it bothers you
- flukus 10y agoWhy? If they were doing there jobs satisfactorily until now then why would you fire them for lying on their resume?
- mathattack 10y agoAbsolutely. Who knows what else they'll lie on later. Status? Their ability to hit a deadline? What a customer said? I wouldn't be able to trust them again. By your logic, if someone is doing their job satisfactorily, but they hid several major felonies (say armed robbery, and robbing from their prior employer) from you during the interview process, you wouldn't fire them? I'd rather have someone have the courage to own up to their issues. If they don't in the interview process, they won't later. And I like to hire folks who have something to prove. But not folks who overtly lie.
- flukus 10y ago> Absolutely. Who knows what else they'll lie on later. Status? Their ability to hit a deadline? What a customer said? I wouldn't be able to trust them again. But in this case you're firing them for being honest and not keeping up the lie. You'd be sending a signal to all your staff that they better keep lying.
- mathattack 10y agoI've never seen anyone confess to lying on their resume. I've seen several instances of people being caught. If someone came clean, that's one thing, but I've never seen it happen.