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Lying During Your Job Interview Pays Off.
By Vincent | January 28, 2008
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Lying during a job interview; did you guys ever do it? Although it is seen by most managers as unethical it proved beneficial for most applicants. However during a Dutch World-Wide research it seemed that not all managers think it’s unethical. In this research one out of ten managers admitted ever have lied during a job interview.
This lying is always about two things. The first is the job experience. It seems that most of us are apparently insecure about this and the second is the height of our salary. Which is of course the oldest trick in the book for raising your salary without asking for it?
The consequences can be firm, especially when you are a manager in a top position. During the first internet hype many managers were assigned without being checked before they were actually enrolled. Ken Lonchar; the cfo of Veritas Software was forced to quit when it became public that he had lied about the completion of his Stanford MBA. The value of the company’s stock reduced with 16%.
The majority of all managers are honest during their interviews. On the other side; the applicants see this different. It seems that 73 percent of the managers had run into lying applicants or at least several that twisted the truth. And even 10 Percent of the managers have seen this quite frequently.
It seems that 7 percent of the managers think it’s unnecessary to check the resumes. Of all the managers that do see its importance the halve think it’s a job of P & O.
When I wasn’t a problogger and was still working as a manager in the corporate live I encountered it several times that applicants where lying. We found this when we’ve checked the resumes. I can say that I personally lied with every job interview that I had. I always told my possible future employee that I was earning more than I actually did.
Did you ever lie, and did it pay off?? It did for me;).
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