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.