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What's the best advice you've ever received?
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I'm fixing up my resume right now and I don't know how to lie (I'm a student with little experience trying to land and entry job). What did you lie about?
Make the lie believable. Keep it simple so it's easy to remember.
Give yourself a little experience. Maybe having done a small job at another company. Don't go over board.
Protip: don't claim you are a Navy SEAL.
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch?
https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/search-filings/filing/10509027302965
If you have ever done something (even a bit, even just in the classroom): you are proficient in that thing. That's the lie.
"Can you do this?"
" Yup sure thing. I have experience with that. "
Be warned, they may test you. Cram to refresh if it seems relevant.
What is the entry level job for and is there anything school related you could attribute yourself to. I went to college for industrial design so I could have made up some lab supervisory role that included my experience with the tools, helping other students, fixing machines, etc. anything that made me look like I had tons of ambition.
A specific example would be the time I applied for a web dev job. I knew front end and some backend but they needed a php person. I lied, said I had learned it at a previous job and could do whatever they needed. I counted on being able to research the solution but more than once I hired a php dev to do the simple fixes. 99% of the job was design related but I got that php issue solved at the beginning and there was no doubt from them what I could do after.
I'm going to school for cs and I'm just trying to land an entry level IT job.
Can you do some volunteer work with your schools I.T. department. Or even some job shadowing. That's one thing I would try. Even without pay it shows ambition. Other than that, do you got a friend that needs a network setup or Linux install? It becomes "I.T. consultant for Echelon, a student-based startup. Focused on building an ethical solution for AI in education." You can peer review these entries and make sure it sounds believable, don't get greedy and don't overreach. Looks for steps maybe a little above your capability but you were heading that way anyways.