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OSLabs and SingleSprout Speaker Series are related to a bootcamp called CodeSmith, so they tell their grads to add those to their resume to seem more experience
by dimeskim 4y ago
OSLabs and SingleSprout Speaker Series are related to a bootcamp called CodeSmith, so they tell their grads to add those to their resume to seem more experienced. I wouldn't call it fraud but agreed that it misrepresents work experience, and it's very obvious when you see one of these resumes because they all look the same.
- spmurrayzzz 4y agoI did notice that the youtube videos I was able to find on the speaker series was under the CodeSmith account, should have mentioned that. I was careful in my wording that they (SS) may just be partnering with other orgs. Interestingly though, very few of the resumes I describe actually list CodeSmith at all. So I didn't make the connection immediately.
- wongarsu 4y ago> I wouldn't call it fraud Grossly misrepresenting work experience in a job application does sound a bit like misrepresenting a material fact in order to obtain action by another party, where the other party relies on the misrepresentation and suffers injury from it. Now I wouldn't want to have bootcamp graduates prosecuted for fraud, and it would be near impossible to put any concrete number on the damage anyways, but I do wonder if bootcamps that systematically abet graduates to commit fraud run afoul of any laws.
- spmurrayzzz 4y agoI hoped this was obvious but I agree, I wouldn't for a second consider any of this even remotely criminal. Its only misleading and suggests not particularly great judgment from the candidates. Hyperbole on resumes is the sine qua non of the hiring experience. This is no different, just a more systematic form that I'm not used to seeing historically.