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Help! I lied and need to resolve! |
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Now hold on a minute |
| Date Posted: |
11/12/2001 |
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I am sick and tired of having to dal with this BS! There is only one chance to make a good first impression: if you were untruthful in your resume it shows the moral character. I have hired way too many people that have been at best deceiving in their resume, while I am working my a-- off to gain actual and documentable experience and skills.
I am sick and tired of a system that benefits employees that can talk their way into a job with poor qualification and morals!
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The reality is that if you answer the "were you ever involuntary dismissed from a job" question "yes" then no matter what really happened many places aren't going to hire you. The question becomes, did you do anything to deserve that. I was going through my old papers today to start preparing for my new job, starting in January. You should see my reviews. They were better than what I'd say about myself in an interview. That good. That was as of a couple of months before I got the axe - my wife and son came down with unrelated severe health problems and I made the mistake of being honest with HR and the head Partner in my section about the fact that I was going to need some kind of leave / flexible arrangement. Next thing I knew, I was told it was my last day. There was no issue of work not getting done and my family's health being the excuse - I completed the project for which I was responsible, not a day late and not a dollar over budget, and my firm billed my part of the project at 800K, for eleven weeks of work, some of which was completed from my house while I took care of my boy. I could have passed the project on when the health problems developed, but didn't. My firm was all smiles until I got the project done and they got the bill out, and then once they had what they needed from me their tune changed. I have no moral issue with telling my new employers that I was not involuntarily terminated. I gave them the details about my wife and son and their conditions (mostly so that they would believe me that the conditions were fully resolved) and told them that it was due to my need to resolve those conditions and my inability to negotiate some kind of flexible arrangement that I was then without a job, which is the truth.
Leaving out irrelevant details the inclusion of which would be looked upon negatively, such as your previous employer handled such a situation poorly, is neither untruthful nor immoral.
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