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My company hired an IO psychologist with many years of experience into a senior role. They were hired about two month ago and we just learned today that they were no longer part of the company.
One of the clients I manage were conducting a routine meeting with a group of industry experts. This senior person was tasked to facilitate the meeting because the person who typically would was not available. They failed spectacularly. It was obvious that they had not prepared for the meeting, they kept the experts working through lunch while they themselves ate lunch in front of them, and they were on their phone instead of proofing the experts' work.
The CEO for the client, who was present for the meeting, was so furious that he contacted our company. The company then dispatched two other employees, of a junior rank, to take over the meeting. This senior person finished out the meeting in a support role. Not even a week later they no longer worked for our company.
I cannot say if they lied on their resume or during the interview, I was not present for either, but it is clear they did not have the facilitation skills that we had expected. While it is true that they were able to land the job, their exaggeration put them in a situation where they failed. This one very bad meeting, with the resulting dismissal, may ruin future job opportunities for this individual (everyone talks to one another in small industries).
Don't lie! Save yourself the potential heartbreak. Others may say it is OK to fib about your credentials to get the job, but consider the potential harm (physical, emotional, financial, etc.) that you may cause onto your clients/customers if you are not competent in performing the job!
My company hired an IO psychologist with many years of experience into a senior role. They were hired about two month ago and we just learned today that they were no longer part of the company.
One of the clients I manage were conducting a routine meeting with a group of industry experts. This senior person was tasked to facilitate the meeting because the person who typically would was not available. They failed spectacularly. It was obvious that they had not prepared for the meeting, they kept the experts working through lunch while they themselves ate lunch in front of them, and they were on their phone instead of proofing the experts' work.
The CEO for the client, who was present for the meeting, was so furious that he contacted our company. The company then dispatched two other employees, of a junior rank, to take over the meeting. This senior person finished out the meeting in a support role. Not even a week later they no longer worked for our company.
I cannot say if they lied on their resume or during the interview, I was not present for either, but it is clear they did not have the facilitation skills that we had expected. While it is true that they were able to land the job, their exaggeration put them in a situation where they failed. This one very bad meeting, with the resulting dismissal, may ruin future job opportunities for this individual (everyone talks to one another in small industries).
Don't lie! Save yourself the potential heartbreak. Others may say it is OK to fib about your credentials to get the job, but consider the potential harm (physical, emotional, financial, etc.) that you may cause onto your clients/customers if you are not competent in performing the job!
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I can speak from experience on skills assessments. I bombed a job interview where they had me do a test for something IT related that was much higher above my skill and I couldn't do jack.
For the record, the job posting was not really accurate with what they were looking for but still it showed that faking 'till you make it can really bite you later.
For the record, the job posting was not really accurate with what they were looking for but still it showed that faking 'till you make it can really bite you later.
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