Lies I told on my CVI've not had to lie on my CV (resumé for all you 'merkins) for a while, but way back when I was a teenager and C was a cool programming language, I listed it as one of my skills.
My new boss was remarkably nice about me spending my first week's employment reading a "how to program in C" book.
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chthonic, Thu 6 Jul 2006, 15:55)
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NinjanessI wrote on my CV a couple of years ago that I was a British taekwondo champion. This was technically true.
What I failed to mention was that it was in the yellow belt division (ie I'd only been doing taekwondo for about six months), it was for patterns, not sparring (couldn't enter for sparring as I was just about to do my final recital at music college and couldn't risk breaking any cello-playing bones) and since women hardly ever enter tournaments, even national ones, I'd only had to beat two other girls.
So my prospective employers assumed that I was some sort of hard-arsed ninja master, and I didn't actually have to lie at all.
I got the job, and I'm still working there.
(, Thu 6 Jul 2006, 16:16, Reply)
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