So after 3 months of applying for help desk positions with no results I decided to lie and add 1 year of experience to my resume (all I have is my A+ cert and a home lab where I installed Virtual box and Windows Server 2019 and messed around with Active Directory and such) it worked and within a few days I got offered a interview with a small IT company where I will be assigned the role of help desk support tier 1.
The problem is I obviously have no actual help desk experience at all. I know it’s a terrible thing to lie but I was getting frustrated with being passed over due to no experience and how could I get experience when no one would hire me?

I got my first tech job 11 years ago doing the samething, LYING on my resume. Of course all I did was change all my previous customer service and data entry jobs to Tech Support jobs. I also added dates to my resume that were a year longer than I actually stayed.
They did the background check on me HOWEVER I was already two weeks deep in the job when it came back janky. HR wanted proof that I was employed as long as I stated. So with my back to the wall and HR threatening to fire me if I didn't produce documents (I stalled for like a week and a half). I went online grabbed a W2 template, downloaded Adobe PDF Professional from a Torrent site. ANd modified the W-2 using info from my REAL W2 from the company and modifying the employment dates. Then I printed them out crumbled them up and copied them again at Kinkos to make it look like some old lost ass documents that got caught in the shuffle.
Submitted it to HR and was thinking I was gonna get fired. It was never mentioned again and I was at that job for 7 years. I assumed HR didn't want to waste $$ running a 2nd background check on me and just put the W2's I gave them on file for protocol. I can laugh cuz its over and done with but nikka that whole 2 weeks was just


cuz I had no money,no savings and ran out of unemployment I NEEDED that job.
But best believe company policy changed after me, Background check mustg be FULLY verified before the 1st day you start. I had future cowokers delay starting cuz their background wasn't completed.