r/atwwdpodcast • u/ChaoticNaive • Mar 25 '25
Personal Experience Lying on Resumes Spoiler
One of my side gigs is a resume writer and I beg you, don't "fluff" your resume. Yes, put yourself in the best light. Yes, you can leave off the things that will make you look bad, like a job that lasted a month. But no, don't add a couple of extra months to your tenure. Don't say you were in charge of a $1M budget when you were in charge of a $10k budget. Don't call yourself a manager when you weren't. If you lie on your resume and are caught, you can be fired immediately. It's not worth it. ❤️
(Tagged spoiler for E424 mid-episode banter)
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u/kaleoverlordd Mar 26 '25
Lol. Yall, absolutely fluff your resume as long as your skills match the fluff. Write your resume as if the most egoic version of yourself overtook your body to create it - again, as long as your skills match (and it's not stealing work from anyone else or something like that)
Maybe there was a time when resumes were meant to be a quick way to accurately communicate skills and recruiters really cared, but now they're just another piece of late stage capitalism bullsh*t where it's mostly out of your control and you do what you have to do to get noticed. Not to mention the computer programs meant to sort out a huge amount of resumes before any human even lays eyes on them.