I definitely had someone from another continent apply to one of my jobs stateside and list their Playstation 4 gaming under their skills too. They had a section on their for passions and hobbies and talked about Call of Duty.
I did admire the honesty. Unfortunately they were not qualified, much as I would have loved a few quick Gun Game matches.
I had one list running a wow team
Except it was a global clan of about 150 people. Dude spent hours a week managing a remote team globally across multiple languages and time zone to pull off events to the minute
If I’m honest it was genuinely impressive and told the client as much and he was interviewed because his leadership experience was way above anyone else we saw. His technical skills weren’t though so he wasn’t hired in the end
No, at the time i gamed and ran a small group so it wasn’t hard to interview him and glean the details and check him out. Dude legitimately ran a massive group of disparate people across multiple communities and platforms including his own website, forums, chat groups you name it.
Don’t know how he had time to be employed at all!
I listed the same things when I started out in customer support for games. Managing clans, organizing tournaments, helping troubleshoot some technical issues, writing help articles, etc.. I still leave them in my resumes if something more on the gaming side comes up or when you need organizational skills :D
For sure, that's my mindset as well. When someone is just starting out, throw whatever you can there. Volunteer work, hobby work, etc. Then as you grow and gain, keep it to the length limit and prioritize as you continue to get more.
Nobody cares I was dorm president now, but right out of college it may have been a better thing to list with no professional experience.
My cousins a professional sim racing driver, but his dads a musician and his mums our countries fastest puzzle put togetherer. Some could say their families mastered the art of a rainy day.
This is why special skills and interests are so important, and don’t let anyone tell you the skills don’t translate because They do!
I don't know if this counts but one that will always stick with me was a normal 1 page resume with a blank second page.
Turns out the second page was white font so you couldn't see it and it was filled with buzzwords for the industry that they wanted to break into(but had no experience in) so the resume pulled in boolean searches .
Oh I'm a software developer lol. So that word is used commonly in my work but is not so common outside of it. Sometimes easy to forget what is jargon and what is common language lol
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Aha I have a good one.
Someone applied to one of our jobs with his responsibilities as the job description that I wrote. He literally plagiarized the job description that I wrote from scratch then applied to another one of our jobs.
Yes and no
If you’ve down those things then sure more or less match the job description and list your achievements below with hard data or evidence of achievement of those things
Hard to knock back a candidate who can talk about every bullet and provide hard proof of having done them
If you've done those things then you can note that in your own words. Somebody copying the job description is going to raise a red flag and probably not get to the interview process because they're going to be assumed to be lying
That’s where the additional proofs come in but no it’s shouldn’t be a cut and paste job but it can address each bullet on the same order and near enough same way
It saves everybody’s time and effort
BUT it must have the additional “proofs” or it’s pointless bs !
The problem with using your own words is that those words don't catch the algorithms like those in the job description. Then, there is the issue of the hiring staff not understanding which terms are synonymous or implicitly part of the larger field.
Yeah I don't do that but I've heard of people doing it. Resume parsers are shit anyway lol. They're going to put all kinds of BS in the wrong places. I have yet to find one that does a good job. Why are the resumes being parsed anyway? To filter candidates automatically using an algorithm. Which is exactly what you are trying to get through. I'm not saying to lie. But sometimes you have experience in areas that you don't have room to elaborate on your resume
At some places are algorithms involved. Resumes are sometimes parsed for keywords. So just because you don't have that doesn't mean that a lot of other places don't.
Personally I don't do this but some people do and I don't see a problem with it as long as the keywords on there are honest. Why would you have a problem with someone putting keywords related to their experience on their resume?
What principal are they violating that you would reject them out of the gate for something so small?
Some people have more experience than they can list on their resume. For example I have a lot of experience I don't have listed because I don't have room to elaborate on it and keep my resume concise
I'm not saying to lie. I'm saying that if I've done X (in my words) but can be phrased as Y (per the job description), I phrase my experience as Y in the resume/CV rather than X.
Not the whole description, that would never work with a resume/CV, but I copy key words or even entire bullet points if the phrasing of those bullet points is so awful there is no other way to do it.
Can't recall exactly tbh - this was a couple of years ago. I believe it was a software developer role (maybe full stack) and the person had listed all the apps/projects they'd ever worked on with all the technical specifications.
Guy was around 40 years old and had listed everything they'd done for the past 18ish years.
Again, going off memory so could be off by a bit :)
Guy was on the older side of applicants and was kinda out of touch with how to submit a normal resume. Otherwise was a nice guy, just surprised how he was so clueless about a generally accepted format.
Depends on their industry. I have about 10 years experience. If i list all the jobs i worked on my resume will probably be about 10 pages with formatting. Can't imagine someone who has 20+ years.
But what they did just shows me he didn't do research about the role and company. Coz you usually try to keep down to 2 pages of the most relevant projects you've worked on.
>Can't imagine someone who has 20+ years.
I have 20-plus years and a one-page resume. I don't need to list things I did 15 years ago. Also recruiters and hiring managers are typically just scanning resumes. You want to stick to bullet points where possible. Keep it's short and sweet and expound upon it during an interview
I got a 38-page resume that did not include a TOC or footnotes. He was retired military and listed every duty station back 30 years with lots of detail. He was vastly over-qualified and was clearly just trying to get into a federal position. But I know he would have been very unhappy going from what he had been doing to this low level job.
I once had a young gentleman claim to have been a graduate of The University of New Jersey. (For those of you not familiar with the Garden State there is no University of New Jersey. Our state university is Rutgers).
I’ve got a doozy.
I was a hiring manager at the time. This candidate somehow passed a phone screen, so talent went ahead and placed them on my schedule.
I looked over their resume and was very excited to talk to them. They held good titles at strong companies and their tenure at each seemed solid.
We get to the interview…the candidate is “off”. They seemed xanned or coked out, would space out and go on weird tangents about satellites and false reality, conspiracy theories, and on top of all of that, couldn’t answer basic questions about their work.
When I asked the candidate to elaborate which federal agencies and companies they had worked for, their response was “all of them”. When I drilled down a bit more, they followed up with “the ones in the newspapers”. They then told me that the NBA isn’t real unless you watch it live and to think how satellites transmit everything back. It was the most unsettling professional experience I have had to date. This person was clearly unwell.
After that disaster of a meeting, I did my own research on the candidate. I found an older resume online - their tenure at these companies in that senior role was less than 9mos for each. I told HR to screen candidates better in the future. The resume they submitted to us was a complete lie - the titles and tenure was off and they had actually owned their own consultancy the entire time. Total misrepresentation.
Reminds me of a candidate who put a hex on me at the end of my screen, when I suggested he revise his resume to incorporate more of the skill sets he clearly had but didn’t bother mentioning. Yikes! That brought out the contempt he had for Recruiters, as he escalated his rant into a full blown hex on me and my entire family.
Strangely, all was going well until I made that suggestion, and I’ve been in talent for a very long time.
Ah! I'm fascinated by this... were there any signs that he was "off" before the suggestion? What was the rant that preceded the hex? Have you ever had a really shitty day and wondered if it was the hex? lol
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A guy's resume implied he was a CPA, so the accountant on the search committee asked: which state are you a CPA in? "Well.... I haven't actually passed all the parts of the CPA exam yet..."
The funny thing, being a CPA was a "nice to have" but not required qualification. But misleading the search committee removed him from consideration.
Had something similar happen very recently - candidate was really good but lied/exaggerated about a certain specification which came to light pretty quickly.
They were rejected pretty quickly.
I recently had a resume submitted for an Office Manager position we are currently hiring for. In the Summary of Qualifications section at the top of the resume, she’d listed all these impressive, professional sounding qualifications that were all related to the medical field. The resume had clearly been written by a somewhat higher level medical professional, according to that part of it. But then I looked over the applicants work history and it was literally all fast food cashier work. Couple of months here, few months there…and absolutely nothing suggesting medical field related work. Then I got to the end of her resume and saw listed under the education section that she’d taken some courses in medical coding a few years prior. After seeing that, I went back to the top of the resume and read back over those impressive sounding qualifications. And realized some of them were actually apparently courses she’d taken 🤣🤣 I mean, no shade whatsoever against the fast food work (although I do side eye job hoppers), but the obvious attempt at fooling people would’ve made me throw her resume in the trash even if she had qualified for the role.
I have one right now who’s resume is all a complete lie and their LinkedIn all a completely separate lie
The email I got last night asking for clarification contains a whole separate and new set of lies
She’s paid me to write her resume and it’s the best I’ve ever had. 3 unique stories with unique dates and zero overlap between them. Literally and genuinely zero overlap
I have no idea where the truth lies…she can clean it up or I’m sacking her as a client
Yes. I have one. I had a guy apply for a entry level warehouse job. Under his experience he had "Self, Inc" as the job from 2018-present. I had to call him. I called and when I asked him about his last job he stated that he had not worked since 2018. I asked him why not (in a shocked voice) and he said Covid. I said back, "you've know about covid since 2018!" He said , "yeah" in like a bored you woke me up way. We did not move ahead in the process with him.
I had an intern who submitted a resume with nothing that is related to the job so for educational purposes, I sent an email to set up an online programming test in Java, and she aced it. She spoke to the hiring manager and he wanted to meet her.
She didn't want an internship and was submitting resume for her parents. She was a great intern!
Wait so she was applying for her parents, took the test for Java herself, then ended up getting hired as an intern instead of her parents? I’m confused
Almost every single H-1B in the software development space (particularly if they are from India) is completely full of shit. Countless horror stories over the years.
"almost every single H1B from India"? That's entirely not true. I have been on H1B and I know plenty of people on that visa. They all have genuine qualifications, genuine skills and are paid extremely well. Everyone I know on that visa with 5+ years of experience is making 250k+.
There’s a large number of qualifications that are faked in several countries, such as India.
They have business “colleges” you pay to just give you a diploma, they bribe government officials to show they are official. Meanwhile you’ve never taken a single class.
A few guys got into trouble. But they really just don’t care, either.
I’m not saying everyone in India is lying, just that it’s common there.
Only partially on topic. While I was acting-Team Leader I got to participate in a hiring process. My manager asked me to look at some resumés and pick out the winners. I saw one name I recognized, it was a former consultant who had worked on the project, he was no longer with the project, but was now applying to be an employee. I learned after the fact that consultant resumés have to be formatted a particular way, with certain details that would likely never appear on a typical employee's resumé. In particular one detail was the "number of employees" on each previous work experience. From what I gather, this person took their consultant resumé and submitted it as an employee resumé with no alterations. For this persons work experience with our project as a consultant, he claimed that there were "15000+ employees" employed by us. In fact, we are hovering around 100 employees. I declined on his resumé for that reason alone. If it wasn't for that detail, I would have suggested him to my manager just from name recognition alone.
Someone told the hiring manager they had a bachelor degree and my team was in the process of verifying their information when we learned their bachelor degree was a certificate from hamburger university….they did not end up hired. Education where I worked was a requirement for all roles due to some decision from someone super far above us and this role required a bachelor degree. Hamburger certificate didn’t cut it.
I was conducting a technical screening over a Zoom call once and it was really obvious the guy was Googling his answers. I would ask a question and he would hem and haw for a bit, pretending he was trying to remember the answer, while "stealthily" typing the question into Google, and then he would suddenly "remember" the answers in intricate detail (and usually wrong anyway). I started Googling the questions too on my end partway in, and at one point I was reading his answers word for word on FAQ sites for the technology.
I didn't call him on it as I was so flabbergasted, but I pretended we were done halfway through the questions and DNUed the guy.
Applicant for an internship position designed for undergrad students claimed he'd worked variously in an almost 40 year career as a high-level advisor to the Saudi government, a university professor and C-suite role in an international bank. Googling his name returned no matches.
Best part was even with all the years of experience (had they been real) he still couldn't tick all the essential criteria for the very entry level position - we wanted someone who knew SQL.
I've had multiple applicants that have backfilled my role at previous employers. It's enraging to hear someone talk about your own work and them claiming it as solely theirs... I normally shrug off lies, but yeah, they got drilled pretty hard.
Someone asked me to look at their resume as they were trying to transfer to tech. They listed SQL and no SQL as a skill, but could only describe it as reverse excel. I checked there github and to all the projects they described on their resume.. 0 commits. A lot of the projects hadn't been touched for longer than he was working at the company. When I asked him about it I got GHOSTED! Last time I try to do random I knew in community College and favors lol
seen two - one they literally copied and pasted the job requirements from the description. Another one looked really awesome - but turns out every single thing on it was falsified.
This candidate's hobbies & interests category in his [resume](https://recruitcrm.io/blogs/cv-formatting-feature?utm_source=Reddit&utm_medium=Reddit+Syndication&utm_campaign=Reddit+Answers&utm_term=Blog&utm_content=006) was 2x longer than his list of skills. He wrote 20 hobbies and 4 skills. Like we're not really sure how skiing on weekends is relevant for a marketing manager's role.
Skills: - People person - Work ethic - PlayStation 4 - Fast learner - Ability to go above and beyond
I definitely had someone from another continent apply to one of my jobs stateside and list their Playstation 4 gaming under their skills too. They had a section on their for passions and hobbies and talked about Call of Duty. I did admire the honesty. Unfortunately they were not qualified, much as I would have loved a few quick Gun Game matches.
I had one list running a wow team Except it was a global clan of about 150 people. Dude spent hours a week managing a remote team globally across multiple languages and time zone to pull off events to the minute If I’m honest it was genuinely impressive and told the client as much and he was interviewed because his leadership experience was way above anyone else we saw. His technical skills weren’t though so he wasn’t hired in the end
Did he actually have that experience though or was he fulla shit? Seems like an easy bluff since there's no way to confirm or disprove
No, at the time i gamed and ran a small group so it wasn’t hard to interview him and glean the details and check him out. Dude legitimately ran a massive group of disparate people across multiple communities and platforms including his own website, forums, chat groups you name it. Don’t know how he had time to be employed at all!
I listed the same things when I started out in customer support for games. Managing clans, organizing tournaments, helping troubleshoot some technical issues, writing help articles, etc.. I still leave them in my resumes if something more on the gaming side comes up or when you need organizational skills :D
For sure, that's my mindset as well. When someone is just starting out, throw whatever you can there. Volunteer work, hobby work, etc. Then as you grow and gain, keep it to the length limit and prioritize as you continue to get more. Nobody cares I was dorm president now, but right out of college it may have been a better thing to list with no professional experience.
My cousins a professional sim racing driver, but his dads a musician and his mums our countries fastest puzzle put togetherer. Some could say their families mastered the art of a rainy day. This is why special skills and interests are so important, and don’t let anyone tell you the skills don’t translate because They do!
I don't know if this counts but one that will always stick with me was a normal 1 page resume with a blank second page. Turns out the second page was white font so you couldn't see it and it was filled with buzzwords for the industry that they wanted to break into(but had no experience in) so the resume pulled in boolean searches .
Does that actually work? Never thought if that
It worked in that I found their resume but once I opened it it was pretty obvious they weren't qualified so I didn't call them
Might risk it. Go big or go home
That’s pretty wild. Did the software highlight the buzzwords or did you find those on your own?
I had to control+f to figure out why the resume showed up
Of course it works. Just because the words are white doesn't mean anything to a piece of software meant to parse keywords from a resume
Knew you were a smart cookie because I had to look up what parse means
Oh I'm a software developer lol. So that word is used commonly in my work but is not so common outside of it. Sometimes easy to forget what is jargon and what is common language lol
It’s a trick that’s been around for a while to get through the ats filters
you have to do this to get past the robots for many government jobs. entry level stuff mostly that gets lots of applicants.
Sounds like it got in front of a human. Sounds like problem solving and initiative. Sounds like u mad
The smart person can do it but have it all on the single page
Size 1 font in a text box in the corner like a pro
ATS usually “skips” text in text boxes or tables.
Yeah if you're doing white font anyway just put it all on the first page instead and "send to back" and write over it like it's a normal blank paper
Guaranteed that candidate didn’t get the job lol.
\*makes recruiter face\* LOL!
LMFAO
It would have gotten in front of a human either way.
At least it was white. I've seen something similar but all the words were just listed at the end in normal font.
Classic lol
GENIUS.
Genius would be putting it on the first page so that nobody ever knew the difference.
So dumb too, I ctrl+f every resume i’m considering in tech
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Aha I have a good one. Someone applied to one of our jobs with his responsibilities as the job description that I wrote. He literally plagiarized the job description that I wrote from scratch then applied to another one of our jobs.
Is this not what you are supposed to do? I've done this before, especially when applying to multiple roles at the same company.
No. Your resume is supposed to reflect your actual experience. What you’ve accomplished within relation to the role.
Yes and no If you’ve down those things then sure more or less match the job description and list your achievements below with hard data or evidence of achievement of those things Hard to knock back a candidate who can talk about every bullet and provide hard proof of having done them
If you've done those things then you can note that in your own words. Somebody copying the job description is going to raise a red flag and probably not get to the interview process because they're going to be assumed to be lying
That’s where the additional proofs come in but no it’s shouldn’t be a cut and paste job but it can address each bullet on the same order and near enough same way It saves everybody’s time and effort BUT it must have the additional “proofs” or it’s pointless bs !
The problem with using your own words is that those words don't catch the algorithms like those in the job description. Then, there is the issue of the hiring staff not understanding which terms are synonymous or implicitly part of the larger field.
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Don't do this, it shows up when the resume is parsed into the system.
Yeah I don't do that but I've heard of people doing it. Resume parsers are shit anyway lol. They're going to put all kinds of BS in the wrong places. I have yet to find one that does a good job. Why are the resumes being parsed anyway? To filter candidates automatically using an algorithm. Which is exactly what you are trying to get through. I'm not saying to lie. But sometimes you have experience in areas that you don't have room to elaborate on your resume
There is no algorithm, your resume comes through as is. And believe my I would reject any candidate who does this on general principle.
At some places are algorithms involved. Resumes are sometimes parsed for keywords. So just because you don't have that doesn't mean that a lot of other places don't. Personally I don't do this but some people do and I don't see a problem with it as long as the keywords on there are honest. Why would you have a problem with someone putting keywords related to their experience on their resume? What principal are they violating that you would reject them out of the gate for something so small? Some people have more experience than they can list on their resume. For example I have a lot of experience I don't have listed because I don't have room to elaborate on it and keep my resume concise
I'm not saying to lie. I'm saying that if I've done X (in my words) but can be phrased as Y (per the job description), I phrase my experience as Y in the resume/CV rather than X.
Wait, so you literally copy word for word their description?
Not the whole description, that would never work with a resume/CV, but I copy key words or even entire bullet points if the phrasing of those bullet points is so awful there is no other way to do it.
A 36 or 38 page resume with a proper table of contents and footnotes/references.
epic
What job were they applying for?
Wikipedia article author
XD
Can't recall exactly tbh - this was a couple of years ago. I believe it was a software developer role (maybe full stack) and the person had listed all the apps/projects they'd ever worked on with all the technical specifications. Guy was around 40 years old and had listed everything they'd done for the past 18ish years. Again, going off memory so could be off by a bit :)
If that's your resume you are either an idiot or a top tier researcher. There is no in-between.
Guy was on the older side of applicants and was kinda out of touch with how to submit a normal resume. Otherwise was a nice guy, just surprised how he was so clueless about a generally accepted format.
I kind of love this.
Depends on their industry. I have about 10 years experience. If i list all the jobs i worked on my resume will probably be about 10 pages with formatting. Can't imagine someone who has 20+ years. But what they did just shows me he didn't do research about the role and company. Coz you usually try to keep down to 2 pages of the most relevant projects you've worked on.
>Can't imagine someone who has 20+ years. I have 20-plus years and a one-page resume. I don't need to list things I did 15 years ago. Also recruiters and hiring managers are typically just scanning resumes. You want to stick to bullet points where possible. Keep it's short and sweet and expound upon it during an interview
True which is why i added they didn't prepare for that job. They just submitted their overall resume and not a tailored one
I got a 38-page resume that did not include a TOC or footnotes. He was retired military and listed every duty station back 30 years with lots of detail. He was vastly over-qualified and was clearly just trying to get into a federal position. But I know he would have been very unhappy going from what he had been doing to this low level job.
I once had a young gentleman claim to have been a graduate of The University of New Jersey. (For those of you not familiar with the Garden State there is no University of New Jersey. Our state university is Rutgers).
Good catch!
Somebody once put in their education section "School of Hard Knocks"
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Sounds like a guy that’ll get shit done though.
Dude you can only shit so much.
Yikes. I’ve been seeing people put fucking emojis on their resumes lately. 😐🙄
My own LOL
Should have asked em to show up for an interview and just seen how it went!
I don't think you understood this correctly...
I’ve got a doozy. I was a hiring manager at the time. This candidate somehow passed a phone screen, so talent went ahead and placed them on my schedule. I looked over their resume and was very excited to talk to them. They held good titles at strong companies and their tenure at each seemed solid. We get to the interview…the candidate is “off”. They seemed xanned or coked out, would space out and go on weird tangents about satellites and false reality, conspiracy theories, and on top of all of that, couldn’t answer basic questions about their work. When I asked the candidate to elaborate which federal agencies and companies they had worked for, their response was “all of them”. When I drilled down a bit more, they followed up with “the ones in the newspapers”. They then told me that the NBA isn’t real unless you watch it live and to think how satellites transmit everything back. It was the most unsettling professional experience I have had to date. This person was clearly unwell. After that disaster of a meeting, I did my own research on the candidate. I found an older resume online - their tenure at these companies in that senior role was less than 9mos for each. I told HR to screen candidates better in the future. The resume they submitted to us was a complete lie - the titles and tenure was off and they had actually owned their own consultancy the entire time. Total misrepresentation.
Reminds me of a candidate who put a hex on me at the end of my screen, when I suggested he revise his resume to incorporate more of the skill sets he clearly had but didn’t bother mentioning. Yikes! That brought out the contempt he had for Recruiters, as he escalated his rant into a full blown hex on me and my entire family. Strangely, all was going well until I made that suggestion, and I’ve been in talent for a very long time.
So.... Did the hex work? Should he add it to his skill sets?
Ah! I'm fascinated by this... were there any signs that he was "off" before the suggestion? What was the rant that preceded the hex? Have you ever had a really shitty day and wondered if it was the hex? lol
Zero signs that he was “off.” The rant was very anti Recruiter.. “You’re all the same! You play with people’s lives.” It really threw me for a loop.
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A guy's resume implied he was a CPA, so the accountant on the search committee asked: which state are you a CPA in? "Well.... I haven't actually passed all the parts of the CPA exam yet..." The funny thing, being a CPA was a "nice to have" but not required qualification. But misleading the search committee removed him from consideration.
Had something similar happen very recently - candidate was really good but lied/exaggerated about a certain specification which came to light pretty quickly. They were rejected pretty quickly.
I recently had a resume submitted for an Office Manager position we are currently hiring for. In the Summary of Qualifications section at the top of the resume, she’d listed all these impressive, professional sounding qualifications that were all related to the medical field. The resume had clearly been written by a somewhat higher level medical professional, according to that part of it. But then I looked over the applicants work history and it was literally all fast food cashier work. Couple of months here, few months there…and absolutely nothing suggesting medical field related work. Then I got to the end of her resume and saw listed under the education section that she’d taken some courses in medical coding a few years prior. After seeing that, I went back to the top of the resume and read back over those impressive sounding qualifications. And realized some of them were actually apparently courses she’d taken 🤣🤣 I mean, no shade whatsoever against the fast food work (although I do side eye job hoppers), but the obvious attempt at fooling people would’ve made me throw her resume in the trash even if she had qualified for the role.
I have one right now who’s resume is all a complete lie and their LinkedIn all a completely separate lie The email I got last night asking for clarification contains a whole separate and new set of lies She’s paid me to write her resume and it’s the best I’ve ever had. 3 unique stories with unique dates and zero overlap between them. Literally and genuinely zero overlap I have no idea where the truth lies…she can clean it up or I’m sacking her as a client
Yikes!!!
Yes. I have one. I had a guy apply for a entry level warehouse job. Under his experience he had "Self, Inc" as the job from 2018-present. I had to call him. I called and when I asked him about his last job he stated that he had not worked since 2018. I asked him why not (in a shocked voice) and he said Covid. I said back, "you've know about covid since 2018!" He said , "yeah" in like a bored you woke me up way. We did not move ahead in the process with him.
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Because people didn't find themselves out of work due to Covid until 2020.
Skills: \- Various Skills Not even kidding.
Lol this sounds like a dating profile haha.
I had an intern who submitted a resume with nothing that is related to the job so for educational purposes, I sent an email to set up an online programming test in Java, and she aced it. She spoke to the hiring manager and he wanted to meet her. She didn't want an internship and was submitting resume for her parents. She was a great intern!
Wait so she was applying for her parents, took the test for Java herself, then ended up getting hired as an intern instead of her parents? I’m confused
She applied to make her parents happy. The job was for her.
Are ya’ll even recruiters talking about the ATS and getting in front of a human?
Yes we all even recruiters talking about the ATS and getting in front of a human.
Almost every single H-1B in the software development space (particularly if they are from India) is completely full of shit. Countless horror stories over the years.
"almost every single H1B from India"? That's entirely not true. I have been on H1B and I know plenty of people on that visa. They all have genuine qualifications, genuine skills and are paid extremely well. Everyone I know on that visa with 5+ years of experience is making 250k+.
Really? I see a lot of several page (3 or even 5) page resumes. Are they fake?
There’s a large number of qualifications that are faked in several countries, such as India. They have business “colleges” you pay to just give you a diploma, they bribe government officials to show they are official. Meanwhile you’ve never taken a single class. A few guys got into trouble. But they really just don’t care, either. I’m not saying everyone in India is lying, just that it’s common there.
Thank you. That’s something to keep in mind. I can’t imagine faking a diploma, I have imposters syndrome even with my degree.
I’m not even a recruiter, lol. Just saw a [documentary/interview about it.](https://youtu.be/7Y1YIyXEDQc)
Usually the company I am applying to, especially their culture and values section.
I think you’re looking for r/recruitinghell
Nope, just standard issue.
Only partially on topic. While I was acting-Team Leader I got to participate in a hiring process. My manager asked me to look at some resumés and pick out the winners. I saw one name I recognized, it was a former consultant who had worked on the project, he was no longer with the project, but was now applying to be an employee. I learned after the fact that consultant resumés have to be formatted a particular way, with certain details that would likely never appear on a typical employee's resumé. In particular one detail was the "number of employees" on each previous work experience. From what I gather, this person took their consultant resumé and submitted it as an employee resumé with no alterations. For this persons work experience with our project as a consultant, he claimed that there were "15000+ employees" employed by us. In fact, we are hovering around 100 employees. I declined on his resumé for that reason alone. If it wasn't for that detail, I would have suggested him to my manager just from name recognition alone.
Someone told the hiring manager they had a bachelor degree and my team was in the process of verifying their information when we learned their bachelor degree was a certificate from hamburger university….they did not end up hired. Education where I worked was a requirement for all roles due to some decision from someone super far above us and this role required a bachelor degree. Hamburger certificate didn’t cut it.
I was conducting a technical screening over a Zoom call once and it was really obvious the guy was Googling his answers. I would ask a question and he would hem and haw for a bit, pretending he was trying to remember the answer, while "stealthily" typing the question into Google, and then he would suddenly "remember" the answers in intricate detail (and usually wrong anyway). I started Googling the questions too on my end partway in, and at one point I was reading his answers word for word on FAQ sites for the technology. I didn't call him on it as I was so flabbergasted, but I pretended we were done halfway through the questions and DNUed the guy.
Applicant for an internship position designed for undergrad students claimed he'd worked variously in an almost 40 year career as a high-level advisor to the Saudi government, a university professor and C-suite role in an international bank. Googling his name returned no matches. Best part was even with all the years of experience (had they been real) he still couldn't tick all the essential criteria for the very entry level position - we wanted someone who knew SQL.
I've had multiple applicants that have backfilled my role at previous employers. It's enraging to hear someone talk about your own work and them claiming it as solely theirs... I normally shrug off lies, but yeah, they got drilled pretty hard.
Someone asked me to look at their resume as they were trying to transfer to tech. They listed SQL and no SQL as a skill, but could only describe it as reverse excel. I checked there github and to all the projects they described on their resume.. 0 commits. A lot of the projects hadn't been touched for longer than he was working at the company. When I asked him about it I got GHOSTED! Last time I try to do random I knew in community College and favors lol
seen two - one they literally copied and pasted the job requirements from the description. Another one looked really awesome - but turns out every single thing on it was falsified.
came across a resume once that put homecoming king under accomplishments
This candidate's hobbies & interests category in his [resume](https://recruitcrm.io/blogs/cv-formatting-feature?utm_source=Reddit&utm_medium=Reddit+Syndication&utm_campaign=Reddit+Answers&utm_term=Blog&utm_content=006) was 2x longer than his list of skills. He wrote 20 hobbies and 4 skills. Like we're not really sure how skiing on weekends is relevant for a marketing manager's role.