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Lie on your Resume
or CV and you will be
found out
Do you sound too good to be true? Are you guilty of fudging the facts on your Resume or CV to
make yourself sound better or to hide gaps in your employment? Smart Perth organisations
are not only doing reference checks, but they're fact checking as well.
How do you handle gaps on your Perth Resume or CV in your employment history section?
As the Perth job market tightens it is important to put a positive spin on gaps in your Perth Resume or CV between your job roles - but how do you do it without "fibbing?"
Misrepresenting yourself on your resume can have serious consequences
Taking nepotism in the workplace to a whole new level.
You’re in a position of authority for a large organisation. You’re paid well and want the same kind of benefits for your family. So what do you do? You falsify their Resumes / CV’s, get them to legally change their names and then you coach them for the interview before hiring them for senior level positions.
Believe it or not this “story” is in fact real.
I’m not sure what tipped the organisation to the blatant misrepresentation to get someone a job, but they were found out, fired and now face criminal charges.
What is interesting about this case and countless like them – is the fact they thought they could get away with lying on their Resume or CV and get away with it.
Fudging the truth on your Perth Resume or CV
- Is it OK to “lie” on your Resume or CV ?
- Is it OK to change your job title on a Resume or CV to make it sound better?
- Is it OK to embellish your education on your Resume or CV ?
- Is it OK to embellish your part in a significant project on your Resume or CV ?
- Should I change the dates to hide a gap in my employment history on my Resume or CV ?
The answer to all of these questions is NO! Though with the last point, it is acceptable to just use years not DD/MM/YY or even MM/YY these days. We can't all finish one job and immediately walk straight into another one, though it has happened to me once or twice.
Just to give you an example - I’ve had some interesting job titles throughout my career, including the cool sounding Information Scientist and the “but what does that really mean… Communications Officer?” They’re both on my Perth Resume or CV and they will stay there, and of course if asked - can explain, or they can contact the organisations and it will be on record.
How to handle gaps in your employment history on your Perth Resume or CV
There are many ways to handle gaps in your employment history on your Resume or CV .
I was made redundant 3 times in as many years. I was lucky though I had a relatively successful freelance writing career, so I opened up the pipeline while I looked for other work. Why didn’t I just keep working on the freelance career – why did I want to get another permanent job? The answer to that was financial stability. As the industry I was working in had all but collapsed, so too were other industries and people were struggling, and in those cases the race to the bottom in terms of pricing was rife. Now we are competing with organisations such as freelancer and fiverr and you can imagine what people are willing to pay for a well crafted Perth Resume or CV – yes, not very much. Thankfully that has changed.
While I could fill the gaps in my employment history in my Resume or CV quite easily, what happens if you don’t have a fall back personal business to use as I did?
Gaps in your Perth Resume or CV work history: think creatively
- Were you on parental or study leave?
- Were you travelling?
- Did you decide to resign and reevaluate where you wanted your career to take you?
- Were you made redundant due to a downturn in your industry?"
While you may decide not to fill in the gaps on your Resume or CV, you may be asked to explain during the interview process what you were doing during these times, so you will need to be prepared.
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