Have you ever lied about qualifications to get a job?

[Socci]

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they don't always check up, but I've never done it.

Hmmm...I haven't lied, but I must admit to being slightly sneaky about not having a degree! In the bit where you put info. on further education I always put "attended x music college and studied xxxxx for 3 years". I don't say that I didn't get one, and I don't say that I've got one...Truth was I kind of dropped out and didn't get my degree, but no-one's ever questioned it and I think they've always assumed I've got one! Certainly the jobs I've been in for the past 9 years require me to have one...

It's actually never occured to me to do it! However I do have a good degree so perhaps it would never have been "necessary" IYSWIM.

Oops that'll be me then - Do you know me? I don't say I've got anything fancy just abit better grades on my cse's.

i knew someone who told everyone, incl. his parents who had paid for his 3 years at uni, that he had a degree, until one day when someone asked for the degree certificate and he had to come clean. Smacks a bit of Walter Mitty, that....

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I have a phd in absolute genius

Socci - after the 10yr mark they can't check if you actually have the degree or not. So if you say you did a degree in 1995..... they have no way of verifying it!

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Walter Mitty

No. Never bullshit a bullshitter.

Socci - I graduated in 1998.... and I've never been asked to talk about my degree in interviews! As long as the degree is not in anything that is to do with the job you are applying for the only thing they are interested in is the fact you managed to get a degree!!

I have a degree in Marine Biology.... I work in Construction and IT Projects now.... noone knows anything about Marine Biology to ask me!

I think that's it with me aswell - I went to music college, which is nothing to do with NHS management!! So they never bother asking - or they might ask out of interest if I still play the piano, etc...

So would it be very norty indeed if Fangache's dh gave me the answers on my application form? Does that count as fibbing?

Dot1 - Yeah I get comments like "what is that all saving the whales and swimming with dolphins and stuff". I just say "yeah that was exactly what I did at Uni"!!
Don't point out that is more like spending hours knee-deep in shit testing water for pollution!!

SE - OMG I forgot to ask him!!! Sorry.... will do it tonight.... promise!

Dot1 - Yeah I get comments like "what is that all saving the whales and swimming with dolphins and stuff". I just say "yeah that was exactly what I did at Uni"!!
Don't point out that is more like spending hours knee-deep in shit testing water for pollution!!

Oops

My ex-husband has a degree in geology and he got those kinds of comments, Fang. He is a project manager for a commercial environmental consulting company - he started as a soil sampler, testing former petrol garges for benzene and other nasties before some property developer put posh flats on the site and sold 'em for a packet.

I don't have a degree and have never lied about it, but I do know that I haven't made the first sift for jobs because of this (eg the EU and other large international organisations use this as part of the sift process as they get so many applications). The last job I applied for asked for degree or degree equivalent qualifications to be listed on the application form. I do have a qualification (in an obscure language) that is supposed to be equivalent to a degree, so I stuck that down. Still didn't get an interview, so not sure if it helped.

grrr, I haven't but someone I know did and he got the job although I was better qualified for the job (honestly). I am now unemployed.

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Others lie for me......
I told all agencies that asked, what accountancy exams I had actually sat.

When I saw the CV that they were sending out, it categorised me as a higher level than what I actually was.

I told people I was almost....
But apparently I already am !!!

Mind you, one Cv said I was "experienced management accountant" - this is just not true.

I have claimed to have a 'B' when I only had a 'D'.
I think that there are other like Furball & I.

Maybe I should have changed my name for this !!