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People in my line of work were slow to adopt Linkedin.
Now that they/we have, frankly, it's a mess. Job titles used to be very cut-and-dried, as did job descriptions, I knew who to hire accordingly. No longer. Job titles have morphed into a word salad, as have job descriptions.
Our HR did that to us. They decided to make things easier on themselves by consolidating job descriptions into generic documents. Supervisors were not involved in the rewrite. After the rewrite, my official job description covered everything from laying concrete to building guided missiles. And contained nothing of what I actually did.
Our HR did that to us. They decided to make things easier on themselves by consolidating job descriptions into generic documents. Supervisors were not involved in the rewrite. After the rewrite, my official job description covered everything from laying concrete to building guided missiles. And contained nothing of what I actually did.
That's how it was at my last company. All job titles and descriptions were generic templates to fit within a department's career framework. They did very little to explain someone's specific role. Not only that, managers used this to their advantage by assigning "other duties" that fell well outside what the role was initially marketed to the candidate as. This was one of the reasons I wound up moving on. I was hired by one manager to do a specific data analyst role that I was actually interested in. Then after she left, I was inherited by another manager who didn't know enough about the work I was hired to do, so she tried molding me into a generalist/clerical role.
LYING About experience in any shape or form is sure to come back and bite you sooner than later, and will be extremely hard to recover from.
Yeah, I can't understand why anyone would want to put themselves in the position of getting a job for which they cannot actually perform the duties. How stressful that would be.
added months onto the start and end dates of a consulting gig he had so it looked like he had no gaps in employment.
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Would a lot of big companies terminate someone at a senior manager level or higher for lying on LinkedIn or having discrepancies b/t LinkedIn and the job application?
Padding the length of time you spent at a job or position by a few months is acceptable as far as I'm concerned. By years, not so much.
And no, LinkedIn is social media at the end of the day. Not everyone updates their LI info like they will a resume.
Yeah, I can't understand why anyone would want to put themselves in the position of getting a job for which they cannot actually perform the duties. How stressful that would be.
I don't condone outright lying about drastic gaps in experience, but sometimes you gotta fudge the numbers a little to get the opportunity. If you're smart, you'll learn quickly and be fine. Most of us who've experienced any upwards trajectory have been in this spot before. Also, experience varies but candidates will convey the same messaging to a hiring manager. "I know Excel" will take on different meanings between someone who puts filters on fields and creates tables and someone who is using PowerQuery to join and blend data sources and using nested formulas. I've lost count of how many people who claim to know Excel because they kinda, sorta know what a pivot table does. That's not my definition of knowing Excel, but it is for some.
Don't do this if you're not very bright though, you'll be found out pretty quickly in most cases.
People can get updates if you edit/update your linkedIn page?!
I just recently updated mine a bit because I was given two more additions to my current job. Plus added a new programming language to my job.
There's a small box you have to either select or deselect for this.
I learned to turn mine completely off for any sort of changes after I changed my title some time ago and people thought I got a new job.
I think a lot of people don't know about this.
There's a small box you have to either select or deselect for this.
I learned to turn mine completely off for any sort of changes after I changed my title some time ago and people thought I got a new job.
I think a lot of people don't know about this.
That's how it was at my last company. All job titles and descriptions were generic templates to fit within a department's career framework. They did very little to explain someone's specific role. Not only that, managers used this to their advantage by assigning "other duties" that fell well outside what the role was initially marketed to the candidate as. This was one of the reasons I wound up moving on. I was hired by one manager to do a specific data analyst role that I was actually interested in. Then after she left, I was inherited by another manager who didn't know enough about the work I was hired to do, so she tried molding me into a generalist/clerical role.
Funny you say that. I used to joke my job description needed just one line: Other duties as assigned.
Ultimately led to me retiring when I became eligible.
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