How true is your and other people's CVs?

[RichardCranium]

Prompted by Stolly's question about honesty on CVs, here's a poll.

Not public. Multi-choice. Two questions.

1. How honest do you tend to be with your own CV?

2. What do you think other people do?


Edit: If you can, please answer the questions before reading any of the comments below.

[Menelaus]

Nobull.

EXCELLENT question set.

[HairyArsedBloke]

Nobull.

EXCELLENT question set.

Yeah, so good I had to vote for all of 'em.

[OwlHoot]

Prompted by Stolly's question about honesty on CVs, here's a poll.

Not public. Multi-choice. Two questions.

1. How honest do you tend to be with your own CV?

2. What do you think other people do?

Darn - Although it's multiple-choice, you only get one crack at it, and can't come back to click more options.

[dang65]

My CV is accurate, but it's sometimes unintentionally ambiguous. I mention things like Sharepoint and SQL Server because I've worked with them and have a reasonable working knowledge of them. But it can cause problems. You want to mention stuff like that because it may be useful and give you the edge in a job application, but you don't want people constantly headhunting you for your expert skills in something you spent a few months on three years ago.

[Pogle]

I find honesty is the best policy - on CV's anyway

[TinTrump]

Page 1 of my CV has a technical skills section that also identifies the level/time I've used something. I also never claim advanced knowledge of something once I've not used it for approx. 3 or 4 years; I realise how much I forget and need to relearn in that time. I claim no knowedge of dBase IV even though I used it in '93; I do reference a course I took in it to demonstrate how long I've been doing this sort of work.

As it happens, in my current role I was asked to extract data from a site which was still using dBase IV. After the initial shock I was able to work with it. Just.

[d000hg]

Lol - on early results, we're going to end up with the majority claiming their CV is true, but most people's are not. Like the well known "80% of people think they're a better than average driver" stat

[HairyArsedBloke]

<------ Blagger and proud of it.

[Mich the Tester]

My CV is completely true 18 64.29%

Quite a few liars around here then.