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Subject:Re: A wee story for you... From:Jerry Blackerby <jerryblackerby -at- home -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 18 Jun 2001 12:41:07 -0500
Lying on a resume is dangerous. Years ago, I did a 3 to 4 month contract job, which
was a new concept. I did the job in a software department. I presented a 30-minute
briefing to the documentation manager and some of his people because they thought
they might use the new concept.
Six months later, I was a manager at another company. One of the people that I had
given the 30-minute briefing to sent in his resume. He claimed credit for the task
that I had done on contract. There were also other tasks he claimed credit for that
he had not worked. I happened to run into his old manager at an STC meeting and
without saying why, I asked him how they enjoyed working with what I had done. He
replied that they had not even considered it after the briefing. The software
department had decided to keep control of the project. Needless to say, we did not
interview him.
Another interviewee's resume showed that he had worked a couple of years for a
small company in another state. I happened to know the two founders of this small
company. The company was small enough that the two founders were known by all of
the few employees in the company. I casually asked if he had ever met either of
these two people. He said no, that they must have been in another department
because he had not met them. I asked a few other questions about the products of
the company and decided that he probably had never worked for that company. He
probably didn't think the information would be traceable since the company did not
exist anymore. Wrong! It's a small world!
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