Hi guys,
Need your advice. I had a really high profile interview with a government client today and my agent had lied on my cv and stated that I had finished work in June this year rather than September last year which is a massive gap. I did not feel confident going in there and basically lying to the client about this especially as I have not been to an interview for a year and also they would of expected me to be a lot more on the ball than I am. I cancelled the interview for this reason and told the agent he shoud not of lied, was I right or wrong ?
2006-10-19 01:45:15 · 9 answers · asked by rehad 2 in Business & Finance ➔ Careers & Employment
I emailed the client and told them that I was cancelling due to a descrepancy on my cv that was not a fault of my own, no reply !!
2006-10-19 01:50:38 · update #1
Fire your agent and don't pay them.
You did the right thing.
I would not have cancelled the interview, I would have made my agent put in a correct C.V. and send it off with an apology (from your agent - not you) asking them if they still wished to interview you.
If they had employed you and then done a check and found you had lied then you would not have got the job anyway and if they had not checked and it had come out later - you would have been terminated immediately.
2006-10-19 01:57:59 · answer #1 · answered by Sue 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You should be complimented on your moral character. But you should not have cancelled the interview. You should have gone to the interview and told the company the truth.
Any decent employer would immediately respect your this approach and might even pay the search firm fee if they felt strongly enough that they wanted someone like you working for them.
The downside of telling the truth is that you might upset the search firm that got you the interview. But there are many many other personnel agencies to choose from. Your final objective has to be to get the job, not to make the search firm happy. My guess is, the search representative is so thick skinned they would not have cared even if you did tell the truth. So long as you get a job and he gets his fee, he's happy.
Get a new search firm, or do your own job search but for heavens sake dont cancel out your next interview !
2006-10-19 09:05:23 · answer #2 · answered by Adrian D 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your recruiter is misrepresenting you and you have every right to be angry with him.
Having said that, you should have gone on the interview and waited for the interviewer to ask you about it. Then you could look at the CV and say, oops, that is a typo. And then explain what you have been doing for a year.
In the US, lying on your resume is not illegal (immoral yes, illegal no) but transferring this lie to your application constitutes fraud and you can get fired for it down the road.
My suggestion would be to get another recruiter, but I have to add you put a recruiter in a tough spot if you have a year gap in your CV.
2006-10-19 08:51:25 · answer #3 · answered by Gem 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Right. If they would have done a backround check, you would have been found out.
Actually, I would have gone in to the client right off the bat and said, the CV agent modified this, it's not accurate, I want to make sure you know this up front, here's an accurate one.
2006-10-19 08:48:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You should not have canceled your interview... you should have just been professional and honest; and inform the government agency that there was an error on your CV; and you should have presented the interviewee with a revised CV; and everything would have been fine. Mistakes are made.
2006-10-19 08:49:07 · answer #5 · answered by A Lady @ ALL Times 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think you shouldn't cancel the interview.I mean,all in all it was your agent who lied and not you directly.You could have waited and see what was gonna happened next.Believe me,other job seekers wouldn't be so honest like you and maybe they deserve the position less than yourself.Next time leave it to your agent,they are accustomed to doing these procedures and probably in your case it was necessary.
Good luck for your next interview.I've just turned down an interview because it was too far away from where I live.
Why it's so damn difficult to find a proper job nowadays??
Greetings from Italy
2006-10-19 08:53:10 · answer #6 · answered by Brenno 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
You should of not cancelled...just said the truth would of probably impressed the agent.
2006-10-19 08:52:39 · answer #7 · answered by ourfuturein123 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with #1
2006-10-19 08:50:32 · answer #8 · answered by ANGEL 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You did the right thing.
2006-10-19 10:04:25 · answer #9 · answered by kingstubborn 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋