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(#15) You Can't Just Make That Up
From Redditor u/BaconReceptacle:
As someone who has hired many technicians in IT positions, I'm amazed at how many people would fake highly technical knowledge. I remember I needed a telecom engineer with very specific knowledge of a very specific voice system. I was getting suspicious of this one candidate so I started asking about the exact syntax of command lines and this guy was actually throwing out made up commands! I was both fascinated and annoyed.
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(#23) An Avid Editor
From Redditor u/TVrefugee:
I was interviewing prospects for a video editor position quite a few years ago. I asked him if the was an Avid editor (Avid is a video editing software). He said (and I am not making this up), "Yes, very avid. I love to edit!"
Technically, he wasn't lying.
Didn't get hired, tho.
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(#4) Big Red Flag
From Redditor u/Amadpate:
Sketchy job history, or several jobs in a short time span. I had a woman once that had around 10 jobs over the last 2.5 years-she claimed to have a ‘wealth of knowledge’ from all of these different ‘opportunities to learn’. She talked around most questions, and long story short, I found out that she and a friend would apply at companies as minorities, and then quit and sue for discrimination. She had sued 8 of the 10. Bullet dodged.
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(#12) Basic Questions
From Redditor u/jekka31088:
We had someone come in and interview for a call center position. Their resume claimed they had 3 years working in a call center in town. When she arrived, she was very lethargic, and couldn't answer basic interview questions. When asked what she did at Call Center A, she literally just said "call center rep." When asked to elaborate on her duties, she repeated the same thing. No details were given. She even claimed that she has never been asked such hard and detailed questions during a job interview before. We didn't make it past 3 very basic questions. We have concluded she lied about working at Call Center A, or at least she certainly didn't work anywhere near 3 years there.
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(#16) Oof!
From Redditor u/leicanthrope:
The one that really stands out for me, was a candidate that was reapplying for his old job, and claimed on his resume that he had done my job.
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(#6) Cried All The Way Home
From Redditor u/Communist_Pants:
We had an interview candidate who said their Excel skills were "9.5 out of 10" and they knew how to do Pivot tables.
They literally started crying when we brought out a laptop for the skills test and asked them to make a pivot table out of sample data.
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Hiring managers and candidates often fall into a situation where they almost encourage each other to lie. Using lies to make others feel good and show a better self, which is one of the characteristics of social skills. Scientific research has shown that when people lie, there will be some unnatural and uncoordinated verbal expressions and body movements. Hiring managers can always find evidence of lying by observing the language content and posture of the candidate.
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