Originally Posted by
Tiresias
Here's a funny story.
I saw this REALLY awesome job for a software company in another state (Jersey City to be exact). Normally, being from a different state, especially for a job in Metro NYC, I would be disqualified immediately. I applied because I had just been laid off and I was getting zero calls. Guy ignores me for a while. I talk to him via LinkedIn, and he said my experience is a bit lower than what they wanted (3-5 years, as usual), and my distance hurt. He said send him a resume, and he would see. I updated my resume and lied a bit. I changed one job I had for a month to a full year, and I changed another job's title to Freelancer [Job Title for posting]. I didn't lie about the skills I had at all, but I lied about the duration it took me to acquire those. He called back within 24 hours, and I had 4 interviews, including one in Jersey City that took 4 hours. Everyone I spoke to respected me as a young professional, who still needed to cut his teeth, but by stretching the truth it opened a lot of doors.
I never recommend lying about your skills because that will kill you, but making up jobs for your level of skills + time, may not hurt.
I was once told the difference between me not lying due to integrity and someone lying on a job application is they have the job.
EDIT: My complaint is while I am normally really good with computers, I hate them so much. My laptop is completely non-functional after I installed a video card driver. Evidently, when I opened it back up to plug in my speakers that the repair guy didn't do, I unplugged my video card. When I just opened it to replug it back in, there's nothing to plug in, so I am lost. Now, my screen doesn't show anything properly.