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Is there even such a thing as a CV without a few little untruths in itI thought it was pretty much compulsory these days!
I can honestly say there is no dishonesty about my past work record on my CV and it is all verifiable. I don't see the point as at some point you can get called out on the remarks on your CV.
Whether I remember how to do some of the more historical stuff (i.e. statistical) is a different matter mind!!!
I got caught out a few years ago, as I needed to use regression analysis and although I had historically done it I struggled to remember how when needed. I'd also previously done it in Minitab and not Microsoft Excel. That said, the employers at the time didn't make it clear it was a required skill in Excel when I was employed when it in fact turned out to be a good 50% of the non-experimental part of the job.
FFS, I get the odd grade being changed at GCSE or A Level. These can be passed off at typos on your CV in the extremely unlikely event these are checked (not easy with qualifications sat years and years ago).
But you are bound to be caught out with fabrication of an entire academic past he never had. Once you get into higher education, qualifications are very easily checkable. At my previous employer, University degrees and higher were all checked out for new employees. Older employees were also being retrospectively being checked.
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There's a bloke who very rarely gets into my local, one of three avoidables, one turning into a nasty piece of work when pissed and the other a poor lad I've mentioned in the past with microcephaly and into Star Trek fantasies (mentioned him before - feel sorry for him).
This third bloke claims to have gone through officer training at Sandhurst and also to have been a professor in a technical subject at European University. He's started a company out in Thailand (with local partner) and got himself a Thai bride. They are the bits that are verifiable, though using a 20 year old photo of yourself on the company website isn't the cleverest move.
When checked out, there is no evidence of him having undergone officer training. His professorship and supporting PhD (check-able via British Library EThOS - Search and order theses online in the UK or The DART-Europe E-theses Portal covering the rest of Europe) do not exist either and the European University he claims to have been a professor at doesn't even have a department or faculty in his subject.
The reality appears to be he gained his skills at apprenticeship level, possibly (or possibly not) within one of the armed services and never properly set foot in a university. At some stage, he's gone out the Far East and been one of these people who's invented a past for himself to look better finding work out there (the writing a fake CV on the plane scenario). He's either started to believe his fabricated past or just keeps up the pretense as dropping it might make himself look less of a man.
He's very plausible, which I'd expect from someone who'd done a services apprenticeship. It's a shame he feels he needs to do this, as family I've met are actually okay.
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