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Subject:Re: What would you do? From:grant -at- hedgewizard -dot- net To:Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> Date:Wed, 8 Feb 2017 12:53:46 -0700 (MST)
I agree with Gene; making claims about experience you don't have will
only bite you (and usually badly).
Grant
On February 8, 2017 at 12:44 PM Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
wrote:
Definitely not. Taking stuff off that doesn't help you get the job
is
ok, adding stuff you haven't done, no way.
Gene Kim-Eng
On 2/8/17 11:12 AM, Keith Hood wrote:
I have been corresponding with a recruiting firm about a possible
job as a
SharePoint administrator, and they asked me to change my resume. The
job
description includes some things that I have never worked with, such
as
Infopath. The recruiter asked me to edit my resume to show
experience with
about half a dozen things I've never done, to match things in the
description, and email him that new version.
I won't say what I've done or not done - I'm interested in your
thoughts
about it.
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