In this video, Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter tells a story from his own experience about exposing a job hunter in a resume lie and why you should do the same thing.
I want to talk with you today about a new way that employers are finding resume inconsistencies. No, I'm not talking about them going to the LinkedIn profile. I'm not talking about them looking at Facebook. This is a point-blank way that people are getting exposed. Let me tell you story from my own experience. I received the resume from someone recently and, as is my practice, I went to my database, my applicant tracking system to see if I already have contact with them.. I found their resume in my system, I looked at it and the one that I received from the person. Right before I parsed it, I noticed that there was something a little different about the dates. A few months have been added on here and a few months of been taken off there for a few jobs. Normally, I would delete this person's resume but I decide to call the and give them a chance. After all, people sometimes make mistakes. They don't keep the world resume and they work from memory. As I was qualifying him, I asked him about. There was a brief denial that he changed dates. I confronted him one more time and asked him, "how do you think these other dates got into my system? Do you think were manually typing things or are we parsing information from your own resume? I can assure you, were not typing resumes" There was silence for a few moments and then he fessed up. Employers are not going to give you that chance. If they hire you and find those inconsistent dates, they are just going to fire you. If they look at your resume and then find it in their applicant tracking system with something different, they are just going to delete the new resume. Just be aware that you can't lie like you used to. I'm not talking about reference checks. Reference checks can be faked. But if your resume doesn't match up with what was in their applicant tracking system they are just going to leave the new resume and never tell you why. If your own efforts or the efforts of other recruiters are going to land the resume in an applicant tracking system and an employer or a recruiters office, the lie can be exposed some years in the future. Don't change your resume to cover up gaps. They are just going to be found out.
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You take your job way too seriously. If it’s a sh*t job let it be people
are desperate. People need to eat and take care of their families, better
than being on our tax ? on food stamps and etc. I get it if they are going
for management or working for the CIA.
+Imthatgrl Firms pay me to find people they want to hire. It takes no time to find someone has lied. Firms don’t pay me a lot of money to flip resumes to them like Big Macs at a McDonalds. They pay me for results. If they find too many people I refer are liars, they stop calling me and I don’t get paid. As for the food stamp comments, I have no idea what you are talking about.
+Jeff Altman With all the unrealistic expectations that employers ask from people these day that’s why people lie. I’m not just talking about flipping burgers. I’m talking about an entry level job that people back in the days got trained for on the jobs with no degrees or experience. These jobs didn’t have to have a degree back then, are now requiring degrees with X amount of years of experience. It’s ridiculous how hard it’s gotten. You also could have a degree and no experience and get passed up. You do not need a degree and X amount of years of experience to be making$12-15. That wage should really be minimum wage in today’s time. You wonder why people lie, employers are making people lie or exaggerate. People like you make it hard for those who are desperately trying. You have no idea what people go through just to make pennies to take care of their families. I have seen people who have degrees with X amount of experience be complete boneheads. Sometimes the ones lying actually can do the jobs and are articulate but just doesn’t have X amount of experience. It’s getting so ridiculous in the job world now that people with degrees are applying for jobs that only require a GED because it’s so competitive getting the ones with degrees or higher paid. Take a moment to put yourself in their shoes. Almost everyone has lied or exaggerated at least once in their career. It doesn’t make them bad people. I respect people who lie on their resume to get jobs vs people who settle for a career mooching off of society(food stamps/section 8 homes) or robbing people for a living. I get that’s your job but no matter what you think there will always be liars because they expect way too much.
You take your job way too seriously. If it’s a sh*t job let it be people are desperate. People need to eat and take care of their families, better than being on our tax ? on food stamps and etc. I get it if they are going for management or working for the CIA.
You take your job way too seriously. If it’s a sh*t job let it be people are desperate. People need to eat and take care of their families, better than being on our tax ? on food stamps and etc. I get it if they are going for management or working for the CIA.
You take your job way too seriously. If it’s a sh*t job let it be people are desperate. People need to eat and take care of their families, better than being on our tax ? on food stamps and etc. I get it if they are going for management or working for the CIA.
+Imthatgrl Firms pay me to find people they want to hire. It takes no time to find someone has lied. Firms don’t pay me a lot of money to flip resumes to them like Big Macs at a McDonalds. They pay me for results. If they find too many people I refer are liars, they stop calling me and I don’t get paid. As for the food stamp comments, I have no idea what you are talking about.
+Jeff Altman With all the unrealistic expectations that employers ask from people these day that’s why people lie. I’m not just talking about flipping burgers. I’m talking about an entry level job that people back in the days got trained for on the jobs with no degrees or experience. These jobs didn’t have to have a degree back then, are now requiring degrees with X amount of years of experience. It’s ridiculous how hard it’s gotten. You also could have a degree and no experience and get passed up. You do not need a degree and X amount of years of experience to be making$12-15. That wage should really be minimum wage in today’s time. You wonder why people lie, employers are making people lie or exaggerate. People like you make it hard for those who are desperately trying. You have no idea what people go through just to make pennies to take care of their families. I have seen people who have degrees with X amount of experience be complete boneheads. Sometimes the ones lying actually can do the jobs and are articulate but just doesn’t have X amount of experience. It’s getting so ridiculous in the job world now that people with degrees are applying for jobs that only require a GED because it’s so competitive getting the ones with degrees or higher paid. Take a moment to put yourself in their shoes. Almost everyone has lied or exaggerated at least once in their career. It doesn’t make them bad people. I respect people who lie on their resume to get jobs vs people who settle for a career mooching off of society(food stamps/section 8 homes) or robbing people for a living. I get that’s your job but no matter what you think there will always be liars because they expect way too much.
You take your job way too seriously. If it’s a sh*t job let it be people are desperate. People need to eat and take care of their families, better than being on our tax ? on food stamps and etc. I get it if they are going for management or working for the CIA.
You take your job way too seriously. If it’s a sh*t job let it be people are desperate. People need to eat and take care of their families, better than being on our tax 💵 on food stamps and etc. I get it if they are going for management or working for the CIA.
Oh please, you do really believe someone knows the exact dates of work
history. Now a days lot of business have gone out of business, hard to
verify your own employment.
Oh please, you do really believe someone knows the exact dates of work history. Now a days lot of business have gone out of business, hard to verify your own employment.
Oh please, you do really believe someone knows the exact dates of work history. Now a days lot of business have gone out of business, hard to verify your own employment.
Do you REALLY think someone would want to work for an asshole like you anyway???
He has an “off” personality, I get it. But he’s a recruiter…he’s not the one doing the hiring. A person who lied on their resume makes the recruiter look bad and could jeopardize future business. The biggest lie I see is people putting down a college/university and a degree but didn’t graduate.
+glt010678 And that is the easiest lie to check out! I remember losing $35000 on 2 hires (the equivalent to more than $60k in today’s dollars) over people lying about their degrees. So dumb!
I been hiring people in engineering and electronics for 30 years…..I can talk to them 10 minutes and tell you if they went to collage in the field or not. Of course I also realize many of the non-tech. fields are not that way.
Do you REALLY think someone would want to work for an asshole like you anyway???
He has an “off” personality, I get it. But he’s a recruiter…he’s not the one doing the hiring. A person who lied on their resume makes the recruiter look bad and could jeopardize future business. The biggest lie I see is people putting down a college/university and a degree but didn’t graduate.
+glt010678 And that is the easiest lie to check out! I remember losing $35000 on 2 hires (the equivalent to more than $60k in today’s dollars) over people lying about their degrees. So dumb!
I been hiring people in engineering and electronics for 30 years…..I can talk to them 10 minutes and tell you if they went to collage in the field or not. Of course I also realize many of the non-tech. fields are not that way.