Someone asked about the things people had lied about on their CVs – 21 incredible work-based porkies

12.

‘I used to say I’d completed my degree.’
–_Sad_Ken_

13.

‘I have lied about a volunteering experience and said it was a job. It was only a week but I put a month. Never had a issue.’
–Wide-Budget2332

14.

‘My late husband used to claim a degree in Sociology. He had in fact gone to university to study Sociology but dropped out. As his later career was in IT nobody ever questioned it or asked for any proof.

I, on the other hand, worked in education and had to regularly produce all my certificates, right back to an O level maths from 1975.’
–spiderlegs61

15.

‘On my C.V. I have volunteered at Barnardos – it was actually community service. Volunteering in a roundabout way. I just didn’t have a choice in the matter.’
–Party-Maximum-6989

16.

‘I just wanted a normal shit minimum wage job, I didn’t want responsibility or anything, something i can go to and just switch off. I dumbed mine down and started getting offers. Does that count?’
–Browneskiii

17.

‘When I was 18 and wanted to start looking I made up a housekeeping job in a B&B. Unfortunately it had closed and the owners moved away so I couldn’t get a reference.’
–RositaZetaJones

18.

‘Couple of friends worked for Debenhams between 2017-2020, easy excuse of being laid off during Covid and looks better than the multiple pubs and clubs they worked at during uni.’
–upsidedown_life

19.

‘Not really lied but if I’d done something once in a job I’d list it like it was a routine thing. So if I’d delivered one training session say when someone else was away I’d stick that on as there as ‘produced and delivered training materials for external partners’ or whatever as part of my roles and responsibilities.’
–Fine-Night-243

20.

‘Gaps on your CV you don’t want to explain? ‘The work is in line with the rest of my experience, but I am under an NDA for that period’. Never fails.’
–VipKitten

21.

‘I can’t speak a word of fucking Spanish beyond ‘no habla Espanol’.’
–Snaggl3t00t4

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