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.
The verification is the Harvard sweatshirt you wear to the interview.
Now I want to do a thing where during interviews I wear merch from a different university than the one on my CV, especially from locations it would be extremely improbable for me to go to university and during interviews aggressively hint I went to said university instead of the one I actually said I went to, without outright saying anything false.
Back when I was in college, the only time you’d wear your own school’s logo was when attending a sporting event. Otherwise, folks always wore some other school’s colors — I think the implication was that they had a significant other attending another university. An unspoken “Yea, I have a boy/girlfriend, but you’ve never met them; they go to a different school.”
I guess another implication could be, “yeah I go here but I was also accepted by there. Sweatshirt came in the packet.”
Ah neat. American college culture is so fascinating to me.
Here in the UK we have absolutely nothing even remotely like this.
University is just a building you go to and attend lectures at, there’s no real “campus” at most unis, the entrance is usually same as an office building - street level somewhere central-ish (at least in London), and the only people who hang out at the uni cafes and whatnot are overly posh knobs and grifters who have nothing better to do while most others are off working or getting high at home.
There’s no “dorms”, there’s usually “student halls” but they’re not related to the university, and they’re not anywhere near it, and “the halls” (like a boarding house) are shared between students of different unis, but are also seen as a ghetto and those who can afford it just rent their own place or house share instead.
I have no idea if my university had any non-staff merch and if it did whether or not anyone wore it or knew about it, nevermind sporting events.
Career pro-tip: Lie on your resume!
It’s why I’m stuck in a factory. I just don’t have it in me to bullshit/lie. I have a friend who worked his way into his career by saying whatever he needed to say and he makes 3x my salary.
I wish I had no morals or anxiety…
I make higher than the median salary working at a factory. I left a job that required a college degree and professional licence that payed less than what I do now. Higher education requirements doesn’t always mean higher pay. You might just need to find a unionized factory. The lowest wage at my workplace is $25/hr (CAD). Local minimum wage is $17.20/hr and median wage is $21.83/hr.
unionize and try to switch workplaces every year to a higher paying one.
Um, if you switch workplaces you switch unions.
Depends if your union is regional or just your workplace.
Most of the manufacturing unions in my area are just that, the area. All the trade unions are as well, and probably the teachers union too.
I think the point is to unionize every company
That’s kinda the spot I’m at now, just no union. I’m “stuck” in that the wage isn’t horrendous for my background, but the area I live in is so expensive that it kinda evens out. If I want any kind of savings I need to stay in this garage I rent.
I’ve wanted to make a move for the last 5 years, but COVID came along so i waited it out, then it was “omg recession is coming, recession is coming!” So I waited it out. Now we’re “blessed” with the Mango Mussolini who is hell bent on destroying the economy so again I feel like the only smart thing to do is wait it out…
Aww
Hey silver lining though?
You’re not gonna get fired and be embarrassed in ten years then go broke and lose your property and be unhireable etc etc etc
There was a US story or few too - someone goes back and checks ancient claims, then it’s all bad
The way I see it is that they’re looking to exploit me for as much as they can get, so I have no obligation to treat them with any more respect than that. I don’t lie, but I have no problem taking a single instance where I worked next to a couple newbies for an hour and gave them pointers and turning it into “trained and oversaw new hires to ensure proper workflow protocol” on my resume.
Yeah. Embellishing the truth is a much better strategy for job seeking.
i hate working with people like this
you can fool HR but not your coworkers for long and I sure as fuck don’t want to carry the new guy moreso if he’s making more than me
Carry the new guy? If you’re lying on your resume to say you have skills that you don’t really have, then you’re not doing it right. You’re supposed to figure out what your skills actually are, then embellish your resume to make those skills shine on paper. I’ve never had anything but glowing reviews from my employers because I made sure to apply for jobs that suited my skills, and formatted my resume to help me get hired. I’m good at training newbies, but my first employer didn’t trust me with that responsibility, so I embellished a bit on my resume to make sure my second employer trusted me enough to let me make use of that skill, and pay me accordingly.
Maybe I should lie about being a sous chef so I can work at a Antarctica base as a chef…
I’ll be honest that’s what I’ve done. But they weren’t lies of stuff I can’t do. More like “oh I made this small coding project”, “I’ve replaced phone screens before”, “I know how to debug code”
Yeah; those are reasonable. Not overly-checkable stuff like the school you went to and degree you obtained.
The DMs have been flowing in … from scammers.
Please advise, my landlord won’t accept LinkedIn DMs as rent payment.
fire him; hire a new landlord
What if I already have a master’s but still can’t find a job?
Message people in your field on LinkedIn who may have a possibility of hiring you. Applying for job postings does approximately nothing.
Just keep adding master’s degrees until you get an offer, I guess.
overqualified
“Employers hate this one powerful trick!”
If you keep adding enough master degrees eventually the HR system of some company hiring you will overflow and you’ll be CISO in no time.
Good old Bobby Tables, the master in every field known to man.
just add x amount of experience to your degree, they look more into the bullsshit experience you faked(but they also likely wont verify your experience, unless you are incompetent than they start to question your resume), and most of the time they dont question it. assuming your degree is one field they will scrutinize. had a friend with MS in the science gave up searching, i dint do it either with just a undergrad. just add like 1 year experience to see if anyone bites, if nobody bites in a month, add another year(i think 2 year is when you see offer starts to come in.
ALso some jobs may request LORs, fake them too.
they tend to stay away from cv/resume with 1 or less years of experience, also they use software to automatically screen out certain keywords.
Add a PhD
Tried that, doesn’t work
Try adding an MBA. Money people and managers seem to think that makes you one of them.
Have you considered a doctorate?
Do you think there’s a correlation between those who process further up the academia tree; and those who enjoy masochism?
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.
I’ve got a BSc from Cambridge.
Apparently the graduate still looking for it wheeeeyyyyy
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.
Meanwhile today data brokers and background checks walk hand in hand with hiring screens at any established tech company. I still have to verify my degree when applying for new jobs even though I’ve been out of college for over a decade and even if I’m not, I know they are still checking with a data broker of some kind or another. I know this because I’ve also been a hiring manager and had the recruiter drop people off my roster when their silent background check fails. Candidates don’t even know they are being dropped or which data broker may or may not have incorrect information on their degree status
Counter-experience: I don’t have a college degree, but I have ~25 years’ experience in tech. I never submit anything in the “education” section of applications but typically haven’t had a problem getting interviews - including with the big name co’s. Admittedly, it’s possible I’m getting dropped silently from some applications but the only people who actually ask about my education at this point are recruiters looking to popular their database fields.
That would be nice… If companies still promoted people beyond the levels of, “beginner peon” to “senior peon.”
you have companies that actually hire people instead of commissioning them as freelancers?
Companies don’t promote peons to management, only managers in peon roles get promoted. Just because you’re the best button pusher doesn’t mean you can succeed leading the button pushers.
This is the kind of out of the box thinking that the team needs right now. Unfortunately, you’re fired.
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
How do you think staffing agencies work?
Exactly like I described. They shotgun doctored resumes at companies, hoping a few stick and they get paid for it. Getting DMs from these doesn’t mean you have job offers. It means someone wants to include you in their barrage-which means they identified you as having a pulse
Ah. There are two types of these. The national ones that put up a few hundred “local” listings for the same job, skim off the top, and hope to make a cut. Then there are actual local ones that build relationships with companies with businesses in the area and actually find proper talent instead of playing a numbers game. The way they make money is the same, but the former is definitely much less of a sure thing.
And I’m guessing it’s the former which would be DMing people in LinkedIn
As someone that works in academia, you’d be surprised how many academics never get their qualifications sighted for employment at a university. I’ve heard a few stories of renowned individuals admitting to fake degrees before retirement, suddenly rendering their highly cited papers ignored after 20 years of publication.
sighted
cited ?
The studies are just in a very public place
Nope.
their highly cited papers
Papers are cited.
their qualifications sighted
Qualifications are to be physically seen.
If their is doubt or the qualification can’t be physically shown, it’s a small mission to follow up with the institution they are alleged to come from—often a fee attached and time involved.
…*there
I’m sorry!
Haha, that one, yes.
Dat’s ow klevah are akkadumiks ar theez daiz.
Have you heard the story of Darth Brianna Wu the Wise?
She did that, except people found out later on.
Brianna Wu
Never known anything but I have seen the name. So I’ve skimmed her Wikipedia just now. So she was harassed during GamerGate. Is Pro-Israel and claims the left is letting down their Jewish allies. Had a few congressional bids.
Oh, I see her with something with Cenk and Rebellion PAC. Not gonna lie, I gave up on Cenk ages ago and it seems things haven’t gotten much better for him (especially lately with him and Ana apparently attacking the left?).
I’ve probably skimmed too fast but what specifically are you referring to? I see she didn’t get a full degree from the University of Mississippi.
A while back on Lemmy, someone mentioned Hassan Piker. I finally got around to looking him up, today. What a wild read! Apparently he’s Cenk’s nephew.
There’s also a Dead Domain video, that goes into great detail of her other shenanigans, like lying about being a cis woman.
been meaning to watch that but I already hate Wu so I don’t know if I can take it. really like dead domain though. very cool person.
I mean in an age of overt transphobia, I can’t fault someone for hiding the fact. I do hate when people weaponize their own identity to attack others in the queer community
He’s talking about an MBA, not an actual degree.
I remember once borrowing a friend’s MBA textbook to see what it was all about. I opened to a random page which turned out to be in a chapter on negotiating strategies. There was an offset bit of text that read “your skill at negotiating will affect the outcome of the negotiations.”
Had to go find a Table of Contents for an MBA textbook
For this thread start at chapter 18
LOL “Leading from the Middle”. AKA “Sucking Up and Punching Down”.
I mean, the textbook wasn’t wrong…
It should be DUH rather than MBA. Maybe “Doctorate of Unabashed Hyperbole”.
Video game loading screen tips but textbook form.
“Shoot the bad guys before they shoot you.”
Is anyone gonna tell him that they just check after messaging people ?
We had a university hire a professor here that taught for a few years before they figured out they lied about credentials - only because they had no idea what they were doing, so it’s not an unreasonable strategy to throw as much shit against the wall as you can and see if any sticks.
My college had a professor of communications with a degree from a supposedly ancient (like, 13th century) Italian university. He only got exposed because we had a big ceremony for the newly-hired President of the college, with a procession that featured faculty and alumni walking in an order determined by the age of the oldest institution they were associated with. One of our alumni was a very famous author who was on the faculty at Harvard, and he was like “why am I not the first in line?” He looked up this comm prof’s “university” which turned out to be basically a prep school that wasn’t even close to being 700 years old. Comm prof was promptly fired, which was kind of a shame because he was actually a really good teacher.
Every element of this anecdote is awesome. It’s like a mix of a joke, a logic puzzle, a ragebait, and a true crime.
It might be even more entertaining if I said who this famous author was. But on the other hand, it might punctuate your equilibrium!
On my latest three jobs I’ve never been asked about proof for anything. But my CV is also not impressive at all. Harvard is sure to raise some questions, so be prepared to know every detail about this place and your story. Especially if you meet actual Harvard attendees at the company.
We don’t check. I don’t really care as long as they can do the job. But believing they have a degree is useful for telling clients who specifically sometimes ask about the degrees of the people they’ll be working with.
We also don’t DM people trying to recruit people tho.
This could never go wrong
I swear being on linked in is like a dating app.
If you’re a male in IT, the recruiters that DM you are always hot but likely bots. When you interact with them, they always want to steer you toward jobs that have nothing to do with what you want.
They blue ball you until you get through the interview and then ghost you.
Dude in iT, never had that problem and even doubled my salary through linked in. Anytime I actually interact with a recruiter I lay down my bare minimums and won’t even bother responding further/block if they can’t hit that.
That said, LinkedIn is a shit hole not worth touching more than once every couple of years if you’re not looking for a gig. I don’t even really interact with people I actually know in there because the platform is terrible and 90% of public posts are from sociopaths who despise work life balance.
believing they have a degree is useful for telling clients who specifically sometimes ask about the degrees of the people they’ll be working with
I used to work for a company that provided programming consultants for the US military and for defense contractors. The hourly rate we could be billed out at was entirely dependent on highest degree attained, so PhDs could be billed out at the highest rate, followed by Masters, then Bachelors of Science and then Bachelors of Art. It didn’t even matter what field your PhD was in, so my company was chock-full of useless people with advanced degrees who got put onto every project and told to just stay home. The worst thing was when they insisted on showing up and doing something.
I’ve had a job sorta like that where I was paid more to do the job and given better hours than some people with more relevant coursework just because I have a degree and they didn’t quite have one. Like, I wasn’t gonna complain and I was actually quite good at my job, but it had nothing do with the “BS” in my resume. No one was totally incompetent at the job at least.
They eventually switched to paying primarily by relevant experience primarily rather than degree level, which seems like a better predictor of being good at the job from what I’ve seen.
Are they hiring?
Desperately. And it’s a decent gig, or at least it will be until they decide AI can do it, at which point we’re going to get a bunch of flattened children.
I am a useless person with a PhD…
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.
And if you’re working a government contract, you’re almost certainly going to get a background check for any kind of security clearance.
🥴
They dont, i work for one
Maybe yours doesn’t, but plenty do.
Source: have worked at multiple companies interviewing people who would have been promising candidates, but got bounced during the screening process.
Plenty of jobs outside of Fortune 500 garbage.
