Fake it till you make it is a phrase that rings true through many walks of life. And now, with the hugely competitive job market, many people have revealed how lying during their applications helped them beat the competition.
With around 7 million unemployed in the US, the number of people applying for jobs is at an all-time high. This makes the job market a thankless and gruelling place to be. To add to it, many employers, too lazy to screen all their applicants, have started using AI to do it for them.
This often weeds out many potentially fantastic people from jobs because they don’t fit the narrow-minded criteria of an algorithm. People are losing faith in the whole job application process. But, Gen Z, as always, has found a way around the whole process.
Simply lie on your job application. Nobody is checking. The machine algorithms believe whatever shit you feed them. When it comes to the interviews, a bit of barefaced lying and jargon will impress even the most astute interviewer, it seems.
Fantasy CV
A TikToker has revealed just how much he lies, not only on his CV but also all the way through the job application process. “I’ve been job searching lately, and I have to be honest, it’s going pretty well because not one word on my resume is true. It’s all f—ing made up,” he began.
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He then went on to explain that when he got to the interview stage, he just rolled with his lies. He researched some terms and phrases, and went balls to the wall with it. He doubled down and told the job interviewer exactly what they wanted to hear.
Very few job interviewers will actually fact-check or follow up references. Most will take whatever people say as fact. Charisma can get people very far. Many of the claims made on a job application are hard to investigate, too. Referencing closed companies is always a winner.
If you’re struggling to get a job, try lying on your resume, and be prepared to wax lyrical in the interview.
My editor believes I have an English degree and a journalistic work history. I barely have a reading age higher than my shoe size, and never held down a job longer than three weeks. I’m just hoping he never looks up my name on a police database.