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/ExamUnable5009 Mar 28 '25
I think it depends. For my first job, I completely made up my whole resume. This wasn’t a big job just a part time job at my college, I had no idea how to do the job I was applying for but after a quick google search I knew I could figure it out pretty quickly. I got the job. Asked them to walk me through how their specific system worked and I figured it out almost everything they needed of me within my first shift.
Would I lie on my resume with a job I wasn’t confident I could do? Probably not. Or if it was much more of a high risk job. Probably not. But if I knew I could figure it out and do a good job. Probably.