See even this sounds sus to me. Now all I can speak of is where I work (county job), but I know HR here would never let someone get away with listing your homie as a reference. You can’t just say "Reference: Steve Smith (phone number)" you need to list the person, their company and their title, and HR will likely attempt to verify that.
Same with schooling... it's so easy to verify someone's degree online now. You can do it in like 5 minutes. So again, I'm not seeing how a reputable company is letting these things slide.
Maybe you found the perfect situation where it all came together for you breh, but I dunno. It's a sticky situation though. The last company I worked at, I know for a fact they did NOT check a few things on my resume... BUT I remember when new management came in, they went through everyone's backgrounds and verified everything and if I had been lying about anything at that point, I would have gotten murked.
Might depend on your industry. No one on top in my industry could get away with it...most of the top positions are networked and positions changes either in house or from one organization to another tend to be choreographed with other moves and changes - the scrutiny isn't less, just people already know 'he went to xxxx undergrad and yyyyy grad school; unless you've published something or done great research, it's hard to make it up to that level. No one is just finessing their way into a $200k payday. The industry is small too, so if you claimed to have worked somewhere else, cutthroat people will do the research. If you make up a company people WILL emphasize that they've never heard of it...
So, props if you can get away with this, but I know you can't in my industry. It's too niche.
you guys are STILL missing the point...
you do not lie and finesse your way from broke bum nikka to 6 figures in a day... a year... 5 years
you finesse ONE TIME... the very first job. this doesn't need to be a big role or a big company... as long as it's in the field. i don't know what y'all do but lets say it's IT
you don't start off trying to work at microsoft... you lie about your role on the coli... lie about it's numbers.. lie about what you did to create it... then give a google voice number to your homie, who is "the owner of the coli"
whatever they ask for, it can be made... make up the degree or not... you still have 5 years experience as "lead program director of the largest hip hop forum in the entire world..."
this might get you entry level to some start up tech company to be some help desk guy... after a year or 3 working there.. boom.. you now have 3 years of REAL EXPERIENCE... your next resume CAN have the coli on there, but really doesn't need it. cause you have the real shyt now.
now flip, flip, flip, flip, flip that job.... 10 years down the line, you have 10 years experience, 10 years worth of worthy titles, 10 years worth of references, and the coli isn't anywhere on your resume anymore.
but you gotta be working on that hustle the whole time. you can't show up and do your work and leave. you gotta play all star. just imagine will smith in that happyness movie. except he lied to get in the program.. then busted his ass through life and became a millionaire.. but technically, he never had the right schooling or experience to be up in there... he just finessed his way in
now imagine if the finesse was a lie... that kid wasn't even his... he just used him to get in the door to lay down the finesse... doesn't change everything he earned after that. it was still real experience... but if he didn't finesse.. he'd have had to go to college or some shyt
well some people are too old to be starting a 4 year program... so breh is saying finesse your way into that job and you can work your ass off to come up off i
