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At the beginning of last month, I had a worst interview ever for an internal position. The bitchy interviewer just cracked down on me, and tried to dig out my employment gaps. Not surprisingly, I failed.
Right after the interview, I found another interesting internal vacancy. Rather emotionally as well as desperately, I fudged my employment dates of my previous employers by shortening the gap from 6 months to only 1 month. My thoughts was that it was an internal vacancy, I betted they wouldn't do a pre-employement screening again, and would just focus on my most recent job within the same organization.
Now I'm invited to the interview. I realized that I've made a mistake that I shouldn't have lied about the employment dates. Worse, I became jobless since this week. According to the HR, if the company "reemploys" me, they will have to do PES again. And probably they still keep my old archive.
Should I admit that I've made a mistake then probably I won't get hired (either an intentional or unintentional error. Or should I just stick to my lie, and fill the fudged dates in the PES form? If the second option is chosen, then I'll have to pray that they won't double check my previous form
Could anyone suggest how I should state about my previous employment during the interview? You may condemn me for my premature decision when writing the CV (I swear I never do it again, which is too dangerous). But please givbe me some constructive advice. Thanks in advance.
I think you're fine. I know people who have fabricated 90% of their resumes (titles, length of employment, fictional education, etc.) and never had a problem. Personally, I wouldn't do it, but what's done is done and I think you'll be fine. Your lie is pretty minor in my opinion.
I think you're fine. I know people who have fabricated 90% of their resumes (titles, length of employment, fictional education, etc.) and never had a problem. Personally, I wouldn't do it, but what's done is done and I think you'll be fine. Your lie is pretty minor in my opinion.
Thanks. I confess I was being emotional before sending out the CV. The previous interview just irritated me with my negative experience with my previous employer years ago. I thought anyway I couldn't get a job, so why just fudge a bit as the gap was purely not my fault?
But I regret now and won't do it again!
The thing is shall I also fill in the PES form with a fudged date if I get hired? I'm just afraid of being caught if they compare the form I signed 2 years ago when I entered the same company.
Thanks. I confess I was being emotional before sending out the CV. The previous interview just irritated me with my negative experience with my previous employer years ago. I thought anyway I couldn't get a job, so why just fudge a bit as the gap was purely not my fault?
But I regret now and won't do it again!
The thing is shall I also fill in the PES form with a fudged date if I get hired? I'm just afraid of being caught if they compare the form I signed 2 years ago when I entered the same company.
While I don't want to endorse lying, at this point if you don't want to be "caught" you need to remain consistent. This means filling out any/all forms with those same fudged dates.
You are without job now. What happens if they catch you?
True. I've a few other interviews. One with the last employer; one with another bank (without lying).
Maybe I should go for the one who hires me with a true CV, if I have a choice.
Another trick I should make might be that I state I was redudant for 5 months (still being paid) and actually I stopped my servicing with that true date.
I think you're fine. I know people who have fabricated 90% of their resumes (titles, length of employment, fictional education, etc.) and never had a problem. Personally, I wouldn't do it, but what's done is done and I think you'll be fine. Your lie is pretty minor in my opinion.
In the day of linkedin, google, background checks, facebook, etc, how the heck does someone get away with this?
I think the only thing people could get away with fairly easily is just lying about the circumstances of leaving an employer (saying you quit instead of getting fired), as most employers won't disclose that info anyways.
I also change my employement dates on linkedin upon receiving the invitation.
But if you state that you quit, the hiring manger would doubt whether you get easily bored, as I've already too many employers (4 for less than 5 years!).
I also merged the first 2 employers to one, as the experience were kind of continuous. I joined this company with already sort of "fake" CV.
I also change my employement dates on linkedin upon receiving the invitation.
But if you state that you quit, the hiring manger would doubt whether you get easily bored, as I've already too many employers (4 for less than 5 years!).
I also merged the first 2 employers to one, as the experience were kind of continuous. I joined this company with already sort of "fake" CV.
I didn't say lying about the circumstances about you leaving a job would make you look better, I just said its probably the only thing that's easy to get away with.
But I guess not, considering people are talking about making up 90% of their resume.
I didn't say lying about the circumstances about you leaving a job would make you look better, I just said its probably the only thing that's easy to get away with.
But I guess not, considering people are talking about making up 90% of their resume.
Oke, I get your point.
What would you suggest me to do during the interview when they question about my previous experience? Shall I just say I lied about my CV or simply it was a mistake about the dates?
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