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> The task is rendered even more difficult by the fact that most people lie in job interviews. Woah what? Seriously? Back when I was starting my career, I had
by RajT88 3y ago
> The task is rendered even more difficult by the fact that most people lie in job interviews.
Woah what? Seriously?
Back when I was starting my career, I had an acquaintance tell me that "everyone lies" and to feel free to pad my resume, because "everyone does it" and if I didn't do it, then my overall impression will be discounted anyways down to below what my actual capabilities were.
I always chalked that up to him being a sales guy, so of course he's going to lie cheat and steal his way to the top, and insist that everyone should do the same.
When I have interviewed candidates, I can tell when someone has lied about something, because they can't talk through their process for doing the thing they claimed to have done. The details won't be there, and/or will be wrong. It's not common.
I don't put stuff on my resume that I can't speak to. Things I don't remember that well, I remove - no point in putting down stale skills that you're going to get dinged on.
On the other hand - Psychology Today as a source of such things has been known to post articles like this on topics which have been roundly debunked in the field. So this could also be one of those bad opeds.
- floor2 3y agoSeems like an obvious case of "shades of grey" vs a binary thing. Most people don't blatantly lie and claim they were the CEO of Apple. But does a random mid-level engineer at Apple slightly exaggerate their role on a team during an interview? Subjective, but likely very common. Plus, many jobs are almost intractable to appropriately assign value to. If you were one of 5 people pitching a deal to a company, and it works, who's to say which person was the key to success? All 5 people might truly believe that they were the reason the deal closed and take credit for it in future interviews.
- RajT88 3y agoThis is apparently what was cited. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.0021-9029.2006.00055.x https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.0021-9029.... Interesting stuff.
- Nasrudith 3y agoI have taken a course in interviewing when I was trying to get jobs. The techniques presented were all but asking to be deceived as all of the signs of trustworthiness had nothing to do with actual trustworthiness and had to do with playing them off, subtle mirroring of mannerisms, and similar. When you start asking for things that like or things that people can't truly control like "enthusiasm" or "confidence" regardless of your stated intents what you are really selecting for is bullshitters, as natural chance of a match up is the distant competitor