The only time you should lie to get a job

The only time you should lie to get a job is when you know you can actually do it.

It is totally pointless trying to get a job for which you have no experience or qualifications.

Even if you manage to get it, you won’t be able to actually do it, so it so you will get found out pretty quickly.

Imagine if you tried to get a job a bus driver and you couldn’t drive!

Not only is that a completely stupid thing to do, it is incredibly dangerous.

Trying for a computer operator’s job is a waste of everybody’s time if you don’t know a mouse from a monitor.

If you are asked any basic questions about a job that you have never done or know nothing about, you are dead in the water.

So then, lying in order to get a job should never be done in any circumstances. Right?

Well actually it’s wrong according to surveys which suggest the majority of us do it.

It depends on which type of occupation you look at. There are some where the vast majority of all applicants bend the truth to some extent on their resumes or at interviews.

The official line about lying on a resume or at an interview is that it is frowned upon by all employers and employment agencies.

But can lying ever be justified?

Of course it can.

Just ask the millions who do it every year.

So what if you omit some details from your resume. It’s all about presentation.

If you can do the job, it’s your task to persuade the interviewer that you can.

If there is some piece of your work history that is not relevant to the job you are applying for and you think would not help you get it, then why include it.

The official line is, your potential employer needs every bit of information about you down to the last detail. Why?

Okay, if you have been to prison for two years, that is significant. Omitting that would not be advisable.

But if you had a job in as a waiter and your are a qualified accountant, why would you want to include that?

If you are a great at your job and you know for a fact you could do the job, in whose interests is it that you put it in your resume?

If you were successful in getting the post, and in two years time your employer found out about your lying, do you think he would fire you if you were doing a brilliant job?

Possible, but highly unlikely.

But what if you had brought it up earlier Do you think it might have swayed his judgement and given the job to some other candidate?

Possible and likely.

So in the end, it means sometimes it helps both parties if you bend the truth just a little.

Learn these tactics for getting a top job.

Applying for a job requires planning. You need to treat it like a sales campaign.

The product you’re selling is you.

Most sales people are taught the AIDA formula when they first begin.

The letters stand for;

Attention

Interest

Desire

Action

1. First you need to get the attention of the hiring manager.

This can be done by writing a punchy covering letter attached to a sizzling resume.

In your letter make sure you highlight your qualifications for the job you are applying for.

Yes, this sounds obvious, but a lot of applicants fall down on this point. Look at what is being asked for in the job advertisement. Take the relevant bits of your work history that match, and bring them out in the letter.

Do the same with your resume.

You should change your resume with every job you apply for to make sure it matches up with the specification in the job ad.

If you do this right, you will get the attention of the person doing the hiring.

2. Create interest. This again can be done on your resume.

After you have made sure your work experience lines up with what is being asked for, go into more details about how your work history. Let there be no doubt how you qualify for the post.

A good idea is to imagine you are the one doing the hiring. What would peak your interest? What is it in the resume that makes you want to get them in for interview?

3. Desire is usually best created at the interview.

When a sales person is attempting to sell a product, they need to build up a desire in the mind of the prospect.

Often a buyer is looking to solve some sort of problem.

If you were the sales person, you would be guaranteed to get the sale if you could convince the buyer that your product could do just that.

What problem is the hiring person trying to solve?

4. A sales person wants the customer to take action and place the order,

Action is what you want the hirer to take. And the type of action is giving you the job.

If you have done the first three steps correctly, this one should just slot onto place.

To help things along, it doesn’t do any harm to give the impression that you have more interviews lined up, in the very near future.