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"Fake it until you make it" is completely different from "lie until you are caught." Speaking from experience, lying is not a good idea. OP is competing agains

"Fake it until you make it" is completely different from "lie until you are caught." Speaking from experience, lying is not a good idea. OP is competing against people who have put in work that he/she hasn't. That's just the reality. The best way in is to show the employer that they are a qualitatively superior employee. Networking and filters are _very often_ surpassed by leadership, sometimes even by creating new positions that are an exact fit for that person's experience. I have a few clients who were hired this way, and had better opportunities because of it. I even got a job that way myself long ago, when a CEO friend-of-a-friend hired me in a low level role but then re-read my resume and moved me to corporate offices to work more directly with leadership. Lying about your past is not a good idea in this case, and it's far worse than just faking a role until you get better at it.

toomuchtodo 8y ago
Your anecdotes aren’t helpful compared to the macro scale at which employers disregard capable candidates due to unnecessary signaling requirements. I don’t suggest lying lightly, but it is sometimes necessary in the current environment.
- themodelplumber 8y ago
  Here's another anecdote: I'll take four experiential-subjective anecdotes from a professional any day, as compared to macro-scale analytical-subjective theories from an analyzer-theorist. Dodging around relational morals like "don't lie to others" or "be a good human being to others" is a typical blind spot of a game-analyzer-type logician. "I beat the game, don't I win the prize?" are famous last words in these cases; I suggest you choose your audience very carefully if you wish for your cognitive gifts to be celebrated in the context of such a strongly-recognized developmental target as being an honest person. Perhaps sporting or hostage negotiation or other "bluffing"-oriented domains are better suited for such advice, where some variant of "outright lying" is given a little bit more leeway.
- booleandilemma 8y ago
  Would you want your doctor to be lying about having obtained his medical degree?

toomuchtodo 8y ago

Your anecdotes aren’t helpful compared to the macro scale at which employers disregard capable candidates due to unnecessary signaling requirements. I don’t suggest lying lightly, but it is sometimes necessary in the current environment.

themodelplumber 8y ago
Here's another anecdote: I'll take four experiential-subjective anecdotes from a professional any day, as compared to macro-scale analytical-subjective theories from an analyzer-theorist. Dodging around relational morals like "don't lie to others" or "be a good human being to others" is a typical blind spot of a game-analyzer-type logician. "I beat the game, don't I win the prize?" are famous last words in these cases; I suggest you choose your audience very carefully if you wish for your cognitive gifts to be celebrated in the context of such a strongly-recognized developmental target as being an honest person. Perhaps sporting or hostage negotiation or other "bluffing"-oriented domains are better suited for such advice, where some variant of "outright lying" is given a little bit more leeway.
booleandilemma 8y ago
Would you want your doctor to be lying about having obtained his medical degree?