How unethical is it, and how can you be found out?
for example according to my CV I can speak Gujerati and enjoy yoga as a hobby… Ive never been to a yoga class in my life and cannot speak Gujerati although I can improvise by adding the word “Che” to my basic Urdu.
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Everyone lies on their CV. The things i can do on my CV i dont even think are legal. :D
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Yes I thought so too, Ive been trying to get this chap to erm "add" to CV and he says its wrong...whereas I need him to stop sounding boring.
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When i worked in a high street store a few years ago, we used to get 16 year old lasses handing in their CV's on saturdays, we used to read them for a laugh at the end of the day. One of the lasses wrote that one of her hobbies was to snog her boyfriend and this guy (who attatched his picture too- he werent all that pretty) wrote in the "skills" sections that his most benificial skill was his dress sense! How the flip is putting clothes on a skill?!
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^^lol
Missy what CV skills do you have
i need to update mine, "yoga" was SO last century
what do you youngsters do nowadays
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Im afraid i cant disclose my CV skills to you, but i'v definately got good dress sense and lush hair in my "skills" section.
The hobbie section is almost the same for everyone, its always " i like reading and socialising" my sister doesnt fill that part in as shes very boring.
I think the upgrade from yoga is Pilates.
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ive been to pilates .... once ,so could be true
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Yoga? Seriously, this will not change a hiring decision.
Now something serious like claiming to be a "diplomat" when you are a coffee fetching intern, now that would be lying.....
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OG, why would that be lying? I thought that's what they all did... represented the pov of their country and have absolutely no say whatsoever in any kind of decision-making or policy making... they are the mouth and the ass of the government, not the brains. Coffee making requires more skills than being a diplomat. You just read it off the fax.
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OhioGuy...the idea is to make you sound more interesting and when working in part of a group the last person you want to hire is someone who is boring.
back in the olden days yoga was all the rage!
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for example according to my CV I can speak Gujerati and enjoy yoga as a hobby.... Ive never been to a yoga class in my life and cannot speak Gujerati although I can improvise by adding the word "Che" to my basic Urdu.
Well, if you get a Gujrati-speaking interviewer, you're screwed, na?
Same with if you get a yoga freak in an interview who wants to spend most of the interview talking to you about yoga.
Por example, I have taken 2 years of Latin and I was even able to translate the Aeneid raw from Latin by the end of my two years. Now its been two years since that and I have not taken any futher classes (there were none), and I never had time to brush up on it. I was about to put it on my CV, but decided not to. Kya patha someone interviews me who knows a bit of Latin, and I totally screw up because I haven't reviewed?
No thanks. I'd rather be honest and not take a risk.
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Gujrati speaker wont want to talk in gujerati and i can improvise about the yoga
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I wouldn't lie on my resume. It looks bad if caught and could cost you the job.
My sister and I both took Spanish for a semester and she mentioned it on her resume (ie. she can speak Spanish). The person interviewing her knew Spanish and asked her a few questions after which she removed both Spanich and French from her resume.
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Well you can put it on your resume, as long as you say that you don't know it fluently, or that you have taken such and such classes. So then at least you do get "credit" for knowing something, but no one expects you to know the subject in depth.
Besides, to speak spanish here in florida, you only really need to know poqito. The rest the natives can communicate to you with body language, and english. So it also depends on the job and if you need to know the language for the job.
No on is going to converse with me in Latin, because its a dead language. But they might ask me about grammar rules, etc. Which I remember very little of.
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Yoga, Spanish, and dress skills? What kind of jobs require these skills?
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Your expected to add a bit.
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A bit of exagerration here and there is not only pretty common, but rather you are expected to tailor your resume to the job requirements, which in many instances mean emphasizing some parts of your experience/career to fit the job needs.
Outright lying should be a no-no.
Plus, non-academic and non-work-related areas are like nice-to-have, but I doubt your getting the job will depend on your yoga skills, unless you are applying as a yoga instructor. Language skills should be truthful, as they are kinda important in most cases.
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^ ditto… outright lying is ignoble, but I admit to having “embellished” the resume’ esp. in my early days of seeking work - to sometimes aggrandize very menial work.
The need to do so however consistently and considerably diminished over the years with more experience to go on limited space. Now there's no space for embellishments - my line of work uses CVs and my basic/non-gilded CV is currently at 7 pages and growing.
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^ u change jobs every other month? 
7 pages!! 
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haha - yeah you'd be inclined to think :-)
naah - just new projects / grants / publications etc.