Career pro-tip: Lie on your resume!

Please advise, my landlord won't accept LinkedIn DMs as rent payment.

He's talking about an MBA, not an actual degree.

What if I already have a master's but still can't find a job?

I'm pretty sure this is the opening plot to the TV show Community.

This is the kind of out of the box thinking that the team needs right now. Unfortunately, you're fired.

My unpopular opinion (and I'll eat the downvotes) is that CV fraudsters don't get prosecuted nearly enough.

It's not just faceless billionaire companies you're fucking over, it's the other candidates who actually put in the effort to become competent at the job you lied to get.

I'll never get my head around the popularity of the idea that lying on a CV doesn't make you a liar.

I was a hiring manager in aerospace for decades. We for sure checked transcripts before a start date.

I also just don't get people who lie on their resumes. That would cause me so much anxiety. Even for things I have training or experience with, I always worry people are going to expect me to be more proficient than I am. I had I guy put that he was fluent in a computer language that I'm not sure he'd ever seen, so everyone was always frustrated with him and he eventually got laid off.

To be fair there’s a whole lot of wealthy people like Trump who bought their degree anyway

The DMs have been flowing in ... from scammers.

Some companies do background checks.

DMs from who, though? Recruiting agencies? Those aren't job offers, those are people who want to doctor your resume even further and some it at companies going they'll get paid for it

i onced followed someone profile on linkein i was with in my las semester almost a decade ago, and he was totally bsing his lab experience, because he told me before hand he dint have much or any lab experience, then every semester i saw him adding 1 years to his resume, then after he added 2 years, he was eventually hired. yea you have to bs your way.

But my MSc was fully funded and I got to spend a year in cheap accommodation with subsidised beer, free fibre internet, and local Counter-Strike opponents.

No one checks. No one questions.

Any Fortune 500 company is going to check, particularly if you're aiming for a job in upper management.

And if you're working a government contract, you're almost certainly going to get a background check for any kind of security clearance.

If anyone is curious, they will fire you if you fabricate this level of education. Lie on your resume? Sure. Totally fabricate education and experience you don't have? Fruad.

I have an old friend who worked in advertising for decades in Montreal. I talked to him about career advice once and I remember him saying something like this.

He said he just jumped into a low entry level position as a young 20 year old in the 70s, worked like a dog in a bunch of positions and eventually became a high level manager. He had a small college degree and he said that in his first position, they were just looking for someone .. anyone .. and he got in. No one ever checked his background or education ... no one ever asked for documentation or anything. From that start, he just worked day in, day out and after about five years, he becomes a leading manager. After that point if anyone asked about his education, he pointed to his track record working for the company. 40 years later he retired with a wealthy pension.

The verification is the Harvard sweatshirt you wear to the interview.

Justin Fulcher agrees!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2025/03/04/pentagon-doge-official-justin-fulcher/

I once had a coworker whose CV said she had a BSc from Oxford University.

Clearly neither she nor our hiring manager knew much about Oxford.