LinkedinLunatics

fire him; hire a new landlord

Message people in your field on LinkedIn who may have a possibility of hiring you. Applying for job postings does approximately nothing.

Add a PhD

Have you considered a doctorate?

just add x amount of experience to your degree, they look more into the bullsshit experience you faked(but they also likely wont verify your experience, unless you are incompetent than they start to question your resume), and most of the time they dont question it. assuming your degree is one field they will scrutinize. had a friend with MS in the science gave up searching, i dint do it either with just a undergrad. just add like 1 year experience to see if anyone bites, if nobody bites in a month, add another year(i think 2 year is when you see offer starts to come in.

ALso some jobs may request LORs, fake them too.

they tend to stay away from cv/resume with 1 or less years of experience, also they use software to automatically screen out certain keywords.

This, I was also a hiring manager in sciencey fields. We also verified education, even with a robust job history. I share the same sentiment and could not embellish on my resume because it’s pretty hard to lie about technical expertise in science and engineering. Also, the labs I’ve worked in have very expensive instruments, not a good idea to ‘wing it’ with those things.

My partner's dad lied on his resume long ago and held that job for years before anyone checked.

The reason he lied was because he knew he could do the job because he had enormous experience (I'm not sure what it was something related to agriculture and he had grown up farming) but the job required a degree. He did the job well.

He is an argumentative person though and I guess he finally pissed off the wrong guy who finally looked into his background and got him fired.

I think it's super dependent on the industry and you as a person.

I used to have a fake degree on my resume and I attribute a decent amount of my career success to that. But I am in IT where experience is a lot more important and there's a lot less risk than engineering haha.

But it was just some random bachelors degree from a community college in my home town. I would explain it away as "just some online BS program so I would have a degree on my resume" and that was really all the background checking anyone did. I'm also very charismatic, had a bunch of professional references, and a couple certs so that helps a ton

I don't have it on my resume anymore because I'm at a point in my career where it just frankly doesn't matter, but back when I was just a baby help desk tech it genuinely got me a couple incredible opportunities. I didn't feel bad because the hiring process is such nonsense and employers made candidates jump through so many hoops I just figured it was fair. They ~~lie~~ creatively explain benefits and pay, so we can ~~lie~~ creatively explain our history.

That would be nice... If companies still promoted people beyond the levels of, "beginner peon" to "senior peon."

Totally. I was the Executive Vice President of Radio Shack, so you know you should take my advice.