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    #11
    Harder to lie on LinkedIn these days as I usually pick-up a bunch of permies during each gig, any exaggeration will be visible to them immediately.

    As our lives get more connected it gets ever harder but people still try it on.

    Done a fair bit of contractor recruiting myself and a faked CV usually stands out a mile, bad developers are often bad at almost everything else - including fiction.

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      #12
      I remember MrMarkyMark passing me a cv of someone who had worked at the same previous client as I had. "Nope, I did that. That was me, oh and that one he did do, after three hours of me showing him how to do it though."

      Bunch of charlatans out there and people blame the agents!
      The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't exist

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        #13
        I always exagerrate about how much JSA I claimed....
        Rhyddid i lofnod psychocandy!!!!

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          #14
          Originally posted by psychocandy View Post
          I always exagerrate about how much JSA I claimed....
          Surely not on your CV?

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            #15
            Back when I was a team manager it was so much CVs I found them lying on. It was the tech tests.

            If someone applied for one of our 1st or 2nd line roles. We would send them an online tech test. If they got more then 75% then we would call them in for an interview.
            When they came in the first thing was another tech test (on paper this time). Very similar questions just worded differently.
            The amount of people that failed it was shocking.
            Most common reason:

            I googled it or I had a friend help/do it for me!

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              #16
              Originally posted by MonkeysUncle View Post
              Back when I was a team manager it was so much CVs I found them lying on. It was the tech tests.

              If someone applied for one of our 1st or 2nd line roles. We would send them an online tech test. If they got more then 75% then we would call them in for an interview.
              When they came in the first thing was another tech test (on paper this time). Very similar questions just worded differently.
              The amount of people that failed it was shocking.
              Most common reason:

              I googled it or I had a friend help/do it for me!
              That in itself is not a problem, forgetting it afterwards is the problem.
              Old Greg - In search of acceptance since Mar 2007. Hoping each leap will be his last.

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                #17
                Originally posted by Yorkie62 View Post
                Well my CV clearly states that after having some time off after creating the Earth in 6 days I'm now looking for a more challenging role.

                I know a couple of agents that can get you up to £20k in central London if you can prove your skills!
                Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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                  #18
                  I think I put on my Linkedin CV that I was educated at the school of hard knocks.

                  Doesn't seem to stop me getting contacted...

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                    #19
                    Originally posted by cosmic View Post
                    Been doing a round of cv checks for a job. The amount of lies people put on cv is crazy. The first thing I check is the person fit for the job, do they hold the right experience/ tech. I then check against linkedin. It's on LinkedIn where it's hard to lie that they get found out mostly. After that it's during interview.

                    I know of a contractor who has lied like no tomorrow and took credit for my work when I looked him up on LinkedIn, funny if I would come crossing paths in the future when he is looking for a contract.
                    Linkedin is funny because it reveals the nonsense a lot of people put on their CV’s, a fair number claiming things they did not do, indeed claiming to have done things that I actually did, and so on. I don’t use it myself in the way Linkedin want, I just use it for keeping in touch with old friends, and have a minimalist profile.
                    As for fakes, once worked on a big team and one of the poor performers was recognised by the big cheese as someone he had gone to uni with, they had both studied an art subject, but the poor performers CV said Computer Science, was funny watching him being challenged on telling porkies on his CV.
                    The CV’s of the people from the Indian outsourcers can be hilarious, but sadly people seem to believe them and they get hired by other companies (once they have gained indefinite leave to remain) and become another BS layer.
                    Shame all this goes on really.

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                      #20
                      Originally posted by TwoWolves View Post
                      Harder to lie on LinkedIn these days as I usually pick-up a bunch of permies during each gig, any exaggeration will be visible to them immediately.

                      As our lives get more connected it gets ever harder but people still try it on.

                      Done a fair bit of contractor recruiting myself and a faked CV usually stands out a mile, bad developers are often bad at almost everything else - including fiction.
                      The old man put Porkies on his CV, but the agent checked out his My Space profile and saw that it was the pigporn version, so no dice.

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