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> If a person’s answers are clearly inflated and their claims of accomplishment seem exaggerated, take it as a red flag. I'm not convinced you can tell that as

by larrik 8y ago

> If a person’s answers are clearly inflated and their claims of accomplishment seem exaggerated, take it as a red flag. I'm not convinced you can tell that as well as you think you can. > it's 99% certain that your next hire has a Facebook If you are hiring a social media manager or SEO person (like in this article), definitely. I feel like hiring devs are often a different challenge altogether.

janesvilleseo 8y ago
You’d be surprised how many people in digital marketing don’t have a Facebook account. I thought I’d be shamed for never having one, but the more I talk about it, the more people I find out don’t have one either Note: I have an empty/fake account so I can access client accounts.
- gk1 8y ago
  I'm a marketing consultant and I don't have FB. The line about "99%" of candidates having FB makes me think the author is out of touch.
  - yani 8y ago
    Does it not mean exactly the opposite that you are becoming a dinosaur?
    - gk1 8y ago
      My teenage nieces/nephews don't have FB either, so the likely answer is "no."
throwawaymath 8y ago
I want to agree with your first point, because I'm confident there are unexaggerated highlights on my resume which would make certain hiring managers skeptical. But if we're more charitable about it, they did use the word "clearly"...presumably there is some unconveyed context there about obvious cases of exaggeration. It might not be about claiming something unbelievable so much as it is about claiming something very impressive but not filling in a corresponding amount of detail about it?
liveoneggs 8y ago
I think if you are getting applicants from a facebook ad you can bump that to 100% I (also?) don't have a facebook account and have, pretty much, zero interest in using it unless required by my job to do so.
ryandrake 8y ago
> it's 99% certain that your next hire has a Facebook This is called the Streetlight Effect[1]. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetlight_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetlight_effect
commandlinefan 8y ago
> I'm not convinced you can tell that as well as you think you can. I'm skeptical as well. I remember reading a thread (probably here on HN) where somebody was talking about "obviously fake" resumes where the applicant listed himself as an expert in 10 different programming languages. Setting aside what "expert" could mean to different people... I've been doing this for 25 years. I'm proficient in _at least_ 10 different programming languages, and leave off quite a few like Cobol, Pascal, and ColdFusion. I've had some inexplicable job application rejections, and I've often wondered if they didn't come from somebody who looked at my resume and said, "this dude's lying".

by larrik 8y ago

janesvilleseo 8y ago

You’d be surprised how many people in digital marketing don’t have a Facebook account. I thought I’d be shamed for never having one, but the more I talk about it, the more people I find out don’t have one either Note: I have an empty/fake account so I can access client accounts.

gk1 8y ago
I'm a marketing consultant and I don't have FB. The line about "99%" of candidates having FB makes me think the author is out of touch.
- yani 8y ago
  Does it not mean exactly the opposite that you are becoming a dinosaur?
  - gk1 8y ago
    My teenage nieces/nephews don't have FB either, so the likely answer is "no."

throwawaymath 8y ago

I want to agree with your first point, because I'm confident there are unexaggerated highlights on my resume which would make certain hiring managers skeptical. But if we're more charitable about it, they did use the word "clearly"...presumably there is some unconveyed context there about obvious cases of exaggeration. It might not be about claiming something unbelievable so much as it is about claiming something very impressive but not filling in a corresponding amount of detail about it?

liveoneggs 8y ago

I think if you are getting applicants from a facebook ad you can bump that to 100% I (also?) don't have a facebook account and have, pretty much, zero interest in using it unless required by my job to do so.

ryandrake 8y ago

> it's 99% certain that your next hire has a Facebook This is called the Streetlight Effect[1]. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetlight_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetlight_effect

commandlinefan 8y ago

> I'm not convinced you can tell that as well as you think you can. I'm skeptical as well. I remember reading a thread (probably here on HN) where somebody was talking about "obviously fake" resumes where the applicant listed himself as an expert in 10 different programming languages. Setting aside what "expert" could mean to different people... I've been doing this for 25 years. I'm proficient in _at least_ 10 different programming languages, and leave off quite a few like Cobol, Pascal, and ColdFusion. I've had some inexplicable job application rejections, and I've often wondered if they didn't come from somebody who looked at my resume and said, "this dude's lying".