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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Lie by all means, but be prepared to back it up.I came to the company I'm in now after 4 years as a Novell Sysadmin. I knew naff all about Windows NT, but spent 6 months at a company prior to coming here which ran a large live stage of it. Having asked a few pertinent questions about NT and Exchange, I put both on my CV under skills. Got the interview here and winged it. Then rushed out and bought every NT admin book I could get to enable me to do the job when I got here. On my first day had to rebuild a crashed exchange server and restore the private and public stores from a backup someone else had done. I think I performed rather well, although I say so myself.
The regular visits to the toilet I made to squirt rusty water out of my arse and whimper to myself "What am I doing here" will be between me, Armitage Shanks and my psychiatrist.
I also put down that I have an HND... I suppose I do, I went to poly to do a BSc, got sent down after 2 years and what I have 'equates' to an HND.
If it's good enough for 5 employers, it's good enough for me..
(, Fri 7 Jul 2006, 8:40, Reply)
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