If anyone is curious, they will fire you if you fabricate this level of education. Lie on your resume? Sure. Totally fabricate education and experience you don't have? Fruad.
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Justin Fulcher agrees!
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They asked me how well I understood theoretical physics. I said I had a theoretical degree in physics. They said welcome aboard.
I see what you did there
They have concepts of a theory.
- Concepts of a salary.
I have concepts of a plan
To be fair there’s a whole lot of wealthy people like Trump who bought their degree anyway
C's get degrees
So do donors
Shi, I know many students that would just buy the work or answers.
Donors get honors
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Have you heard the story of Darth Brianna Wu the Wise?
She did that, except people found out later on.
Brianna Wu
Never known anything but I have seen the name. So I've skimmed her Wikipedia just now. So she was harassed during GamerGate. Is Pro-Israel and claims the left is letting down their Jewish allies. Had a few congressional bids.
Oh, I see her with something with Cenk and Rebellion PAC. Not gonna lie, I gave up on Cenk ages ago and it seems things haven't gotten much better for him (especially lately with him and Ana apparently attacking the left?).
I've probably skimmed too fast but what specifically are you referring to? I see she didn't get a full degree from the University of Mississippi.
A while back on Lemmy, someone mentioned Hassan Piker. I finally got around to looking him up, today. What a wild read! Apparently he's Cenk's nephew.
There's also a Dead Domain video, that goes into great detail of her other shenanigans, like lying about being a cis woman.
I mean in an age of overt transphobia, I can't fault someone for hiding the fact. I do hate when people weaponize their own identity to attack others in the queer community
been meaning to watch that but I already hate Wu so I don't know if I can take it. really like dead domain though. very cool person.
No one checks. No one questions.
Any Fortune 500 company is going to check, particularly if you're aiming for a job in upper management.
And if you're working a government contract, you're almost certainly going to get a background check for any kind of security clearance.
And if you're working a government contract, you're almost certainly going to get a background check for any kind of security clearance.
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They dont, i work for one
Maybe yours doesn’t, but plenty do.
Source: have worked at multiple companies interviewing people who would have been promising candidates, but got bounced during the screening process.
Plenty of jobs outside of Fortune 500 garbage.
My unpopular opinion (and I'll eat the downvotes) is that CV fraudsters don't get prosecuted nearly enough.
It's not just faceless billionaire companies you're fucking over, it's the other candidates who actually put in the effort to become competent at the job you lied to get.
I'll never get my head around the popularity of the idea that lying on a CV doesn't make you a liar.
Job candidates didn't start this war. Companies want ever more ludicrous requirements (so they'd have to interview fewer people), so the average CV expands to match it.
And while you may get caught with claiming to have a degree, you can certainly embellish the rest of it. Used an Excel spreadsheet? You're now a data analyst. Dabbled in Access? Congratulations, you're now an experienced database administrator.
And if you get found out and fired, so what? So did hundreds of people who did have all the qualifications and experience. You now have a bit more, so you know what not to do next time.
Take what you can from corporations, because they're certainly trying to take all they can from you.
Used an Excel spreadsheet? You’re now a data analyst. Dabbled in Access? Congratulations, you’re now an experienced database administrator.
I feel personally attacked and simultaneously validated by your analysis.
When you are starting out in an hiring environment like this, you pretty much have to do this, but you should also be prepared to back it up.
25 years ago during a major tech downturn I said I had experience with C for my first programming job (I didn’t, but I knew others). Before I started I studied my ass off and learned it so I wouldn’t look like a fool on the job.
End result was that when I started, I knew C.
Don’t lie about stuff that is easy to verify like a degree from Harvard. That is just asking to be blackballed.
There's a difference between inflating your proficiency and claiming a degree/license you literally don't have.
What's the consequences of not lying on your resume? you can't get a good job.
What's the consequences of being caught lying on your resume? you lose your good job.
What's the consequences of not getting caught? You get paid to do the job that didn't require the degree to begin iwth.
The consequences are the same whether or not you do it. The benefits greatly outweigh the risks.
What’s the consequences of not lying on your resume?
You pass your background check.
Harvard and other major schools make it fairly easy to vet graduates with a call to the registrar's office. Most schools have electronic portals to handle the requests in bulk.
This is an extremely low bar for an HR department to pass.
Most not have worked with hr much. Low bars are still way to high and AI is reading resumes that aren't stuffed with keywords
Sure those are all well and good ideas. My wife works in HR and she's yet to work at a company that calls the registrars office. They do criminal background checks all over, but rarely do they go beyond that. We're in mass, so we're entitled to a copy of our background check performed by the business, if you're in a similar situation i'd recommend checking it out.
That being said, if you're applying for a job you're never gonna get an interview for (Director or Manager roles without an MBA or BS) then you have quite literally nothing but your time to lose.
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You took a game theory course didn't you? Cause yup!
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Wouldn't you fail the background check?
Any organization is going to ask for a transcript if they 'really' want someone with a degree. You don't even need a full background check.
I have never once been asked to provide a transcript. Literally never. I also don't know anybody who has been asked to verify qualifications.
I'm sure it happens but it's not the standard.
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