Caught red handed (lying on resume)
I read almost everywhere that your resume should match to JD and doing modifications doesn’t hurt Below is what happened with me Crested first resume and got denied even before interview. I was like fine.. forget about it Then next time recruiter reached me from front and offered to apply sent jd, again I got creative and created my resume to match JD, applied, went through interviews, got selected, discussed numbers, agreed everything done, Recruiter said let me send you formal offer letter through Workday. Recruiter goes to create an offer and finds out all the details. Calls me and emails me both resume to check and confirm which one is right. Don’t know what to respond, I said that one was older and this is current. I am pretty sure he got me.#misc #offer #newjob #lie
Buddy, you're fine. As long as you didn't blatently lie and make shit up, you're fine. Just tell them the better resume is current.
Thanks I did that, but seems bit weird. If he did not want to create a fuss about it he would it have called to confirm
Don't worry. As a recruiter; He'll understand. Just stick to your guns and don't let this shake you up. You passed the interviews and all that, so you gotta be qualified and check off their boxes.
Depends did you lie or align your experience to highlight accomplishments relative to the description?
Were you just highlighting and putting spin on the truth or outright lying? - Changing job title from “Software Engineer IV” to “Senior Software developer”: fine - Writing bullets on one resume that call out languages you developed in and another resume to call out project leadership skills: fine - fabricating a degree: not ok - changing years of experience: not ok - starting you worked at companies you did not work for: not ok
Say your title at the company was HW Engineer, but all you did was coding and you put SW Engineer in your resume - not a problem, just marketing. In the end you passed the interviews.
When you say updated to match JD do you mean updated it to match your real experience with JD or just copied JD requirements regardless of whether you actually had the experience? If the former you’re fine
I updated everything.. including years of experience
Ooh isn’t randomly changing years of experience blatantly lying?
Did you lie? The point of creating a customized resume is to highlight skills that you have that the job wants. Not to BS about skills you don't have, or lie about titles or YOE. If you didn't lie then tell them you crafted the resume to highlight applicable skills for this job. If you lied, you're of luck.
Dw. Say both are right and you modified it to fit in job description.
Both of them are yours. You have the required experience for both roles. Based on the role you applied to, you put that relevant experience.
Just remember how much effort it takes to screen people and hire a candidate. They def don't want to go through that over you tailoring your resume to the JD. You'll be fine
Hopefully that’s the case
If you're gonna use multiple resumes, I would use multiple workdays/emails
That’s extremely rare — I’m surprised recruiter even read It. It is standard practice to match resume to jd, I’d still bet you be hired.