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>I don't lie on my resume (I don't need to, and I'm too much in the public) but I don't think it's unethical to inflate titles, play with dates, misrepresent pe

>I don't lie on my resume (I don't need to, and I'm too much in the public) but I don't think it's unethical to inflate titles, play with dates, misrepresent performance reviews, or otherwise inflate one's status. As long as you're not claiming to be able to do work that you actually can't perform (i.e. actual job fraud as opposed to status inflation) you're OK as far as I'm concerned. Especially relevant to programming. Though I do struggle with convincing myself to put some things on my resume. Example: I spent a year messing with front-end web development. Some days I'd just write a few Javascript functions and try to fix/break stuff, other days I would bang out a small project start-to-finish. Total maximum time per week would probably average to 15 hours. If my prospects ask for 1 year of experience, it's really unclear what level of time spent and knowledge they're looking for. At 780 hours for that year, I've put in 3/8ths the time of someone who works full-time at (supposedly) 2080 hours per year and wasn't also distracted by a completely unrelated job. Ethical Me wants to be responsible and not misrepresent. Practical Me says I need the money. Unlike the doctor example, programmers have a lot of time to research and tinker without making someone bleed. It's difficult to be sure of what I can actually do before I've done it whereas doctors go through many, many tests to verify their skills.

BSousa 13y ago
Well, think of it this way: 90% chance if they like your inflated resume, they will ask you for a technical interview. If you don't pass that, ok, no harm done, if you do, you might get a job, and they think you will be able to do the job at hand. I've advocated what Michael is saying before here. I was lucky to never have to do it, but I have been on the recruiting side and didn't care much for some resume inflation on candidates (specially in companies where HR are involved in the process because no one has 5+ years of mongo experience but if they hear you need an experience mongo guy that is what they are going to put in the ad)

BSousa 13y ago

Well, think of it this way: 90% chance if they like your inflated resume, they will ask you for a technical interview. If you don't pass that, ok, no harm done, if you do, you might get a job, and they think you will be able to do the job at hand. I've advocated what Michael is saying before here. I was lucky to never have to do it, but I have been on the recruiting side and didn't care much for some resume inflation on candidates (specially in companies where HR are involved in the process because no one has 5+ years of mongo experience but if they hear you need an experience mongo guy that is what they are going to put in the ad)