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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Spot on Waynster...I had a really good session from some consultants when nearly made redundant the other year. One excellent tip: if you've got something you HAVE to put on the cv but don't want anyone to read, put it at the top of page 2 on the left. They'll read p1 quickly and possibly flip over to p2 looking at whatever is in the middle of the page.
My motto is "The truth and nothing but the truth...but NO WAY the whole truth". Thus I have a 2i BA (hons) from Leeds uni, but don't mention it was Art/Design Technology. I put down 3 'A' Levels and the subjects but not the grades. I put the dates on the left so that they don't spot the fact that 'A' Levels were 1981 and degree was 1996. I put 'Work history over past 10 years' which excludes all the temp jobs, bumming around picking grapes stuff that came between school and mature studentage.
One last tip for you youngsters - Get a job which sounds interesting or exciting for the summer e.g. deck hand on a sailing ship, clearing up elephant shit at the zoo, stage hand in a strip club (what was the pay? £5.00 an hour, it was all I could afford). This will give you something to talk about for the rest of your life and won't harm your cv. Four weeks at Tesco ain't great, four weeks at Google or the Hilton Singapore sounds interesting.
Biggest lie on my cv: able to work effectively both on my own and as part of a team. I hate friggin' teams.
(, Fri 7 Jul 2006, 11:59, Reply)
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