Fake Resume

last SG · 2009-10-01T12:50:45+00:00

I know of a person who was sacked after 1 week in employment. apparently this person was found out (dun ask me how) and was given immediate dismissal for wil...

Rooney9 SG

I believed most resumes are not true. some embellished their resume to make it look better, especially if you are a job hopper, who change jobs a few times a year. if not interviewer will ask you why you change jobs that often and your chances of landing that job is zero, especially in an economic climate now, where it is an employer's world.

does the HR do reference check on you before they decide to offer you employment? some companies HR simply didnt check and offer the candidate the job. some didnt even bother to ask you for their certificates. I got a job last time, but the HR didnt asked me for my certificates or to verify them.

the Bear SG

they may not need your certificates.. all they have to do is to call the registrar of your university and they'll have your academic history

Rooney9 SG

what if your university is overseas lol. abit mafan to email or call them to verify right. what if they dun reply to your email or letter, asking for verification lol.

what about your previous job history? do they call or email to your previous employer to check on you?

EarlNeo SG

even if u get by and got the job...

u started on a wrong foot... and that alone might cost u dearly in the near future... aft all u had achieved...

the Bear SG

what if your university is overseas lol. abit mafan to email or call them to verify right. what if they dun reply to your email or letter, asking for verification lol.

what about your previous job history? do they call or email to your previous employer to check on you?

the uni doesn't reply, you don't get the job..

it's the job of the registrar to reply to these things...

anyway, my organisation HR does check on past history..

fireng SG

sometimes they need staff urgently so they don't want to waste time doing all the checks

Rooney9 SG

how many lied in the resume? like you actually worked in the co for 2 years, but you actually worked there for 1 year. will the new co check and verify with your previous employer?

the Bear SG

what goes around, comes around..

if one checks, and finds that you have lied, you can forget about getting employed again..

Rooney9 SG

yes you are right. a lie told repeatedly will get exposed one day. I wonder how many are caught out this way?

octega SG

that's why there is the 3/6 mths probation period. This is when they observed how you work or check up ur resume. My ex-company did fired ppl for incompetence during the probation period where they claim these and that but in the end, when start work, all the lies start to fall apart.

Rooney9 SG

I see. if you do not have the skill set, you do not have it. resume and interview can lie, but performance do not.

Alpha Omega SG

My company had a big problem with fresh grads.

When during the interview they super confident, got good grades, resume write nice nice, but when employed they cannot adjust to working life, do a lot of stupid mistakes, in the end got fired. Wah this kind go back to study better la. Happened twice already.

Rooney9 SG

My company had a big problem with fresh grads.

no chance or warning given lol

Louis dave36 SG

die liao jialat. I lied in my resume that I worked for 2 years but I worked for less than that. this agency has found a job for me, I attended the interview and called me to say they wanted to offer me the job. now they are doing the check on my previous company, awaiting their reply. there goes this job I supposed after they found out.

Fantagf SG

My company had a big problem with fresh grads.

OUt of curiosity, are these local grads? I have heard that many foreign companies prefer to employ overseas grads coz they deem that local grads cannot think out of the box.

noahnoah SG

too honest in life also not good?

Anyway bosses also never been honest too ya

Shermaine-heartzx SG

i actually did lie on one of my jobs but i got that job ^^. I never work as a waitress before but River quay seafood restaurant told me that do i have any experience being a waitress before and i just blurted out yes =.=. I really want this job so here i am in the same restaurant. They did suspect that im lying when i took orders from customers though but its ok. i got experience now so it went smoothly

Louis dave36 SG

OUt of curiosity, are these local grads? I have heard that many foreign companies prefer to employ overseas grads coz they deem that local grads cannot think out of the box.

if that is the case, why not work for local companies lol. local companies tend to employ local grads and not foreign ones. same attitude with the government and stat board jobs.

are you a foreign grad by the way?

Louis dave36 SG

you are a waitress now? you never worked other jobs before? whats your long term career plans and goals?

Alpha Omega SG

Actually one was local was was a foreign grad.

Got give warning la but verbal ones. Didn't want to give written one because once given that will be on their official record for employer who check back in the future.

And the company i worked for was a big japanese MNC, singapore was their regional HQ.

even my boss complain to me that time they cannot make it. do simple things also do wrong. (eg: write a contract to offer to a new employee, he write the person's salary wrong, or his address wrong, or spell name wrong, etc.)