Lies I told on my CVI've not had to lie on my CV (resumé for all you 'merkins) for a while, but way back when I was a teenager and C was a cool programming language, I listed it as one of my skills.
My new boss was remarkably nice about me spending my first week's employment reading a "how to program in C" book.
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chthonic, Thu 6 Jul 2006, 15:55)
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Just a bit out of dateWell, they always say you should try and grab their attention with the 'hobbies and interests' bit...
mine include: parachuting (until I went *splat* 10 years ago and now walk like Herr Flick), hillwalking/climbing (likewise, as people with buggered knees can't make it out of the car park let alone gallop across the countryside), socialising (trans: grumpy aggressive drunk with no mates), shooting (help help there's a psycho in the interview who will vault the desk and insert office equipment into me), and naval history (oh bugger me it's Hornblower). I left out FPS games and 90's Thrash 'cos I though it would be a negative (?)
Luckily no-one ever gets that far as they are all going 'why is a marine biologist working in the car business??
My stock answer 'it looked like something interesting to do before joining the forces' doesn't cut much ice when they expect me to witter on about swimming with fucking Flipper and saving the planet.
Then they realise that the superfit skydiving climbing outdoory type is after 15 years a baldy lardarse who checks out female interviewers (IILF anyone?) and for some reason still employ me. They all learn, eventually.
However my sister did get interviews on the grounds that her interests included 'talking to her collection of house plants'. Aahh, the media...
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