Exaggerating on Resume
After receiving an offer and reading my resume, I realised that I kind of exaggerated my role at a previous internship two summers ago. By exaggerate, I should probably say the way that I phrased my wording might send the message that I was more important than I was.
I just accepted an offer in London. Does anyone know when the background checks typically are? And should I be worried about having an offer rescinded.
You should probably give a better description of "exaggerated," because the way you phrase it makes you sound like you did what most applicants do. What do you mean by "more important"--did you lie about your day-to-day activities or just keep it vague?
What you're worried about wouldn't even come up in a background check; it's way too minute and specific
Don't worry, everyone in banking makes him/her appear more important than he/she actually is.
By exaggerate, I mean that I wrote the acutal company, place, and division that I worked in. However, I was essentially assigned duties that I had to complete, whereas on my resume I made it appear as if I had a say in in the tasks that I completed.
Then monkey and Ukon are correct; that's something that has already been fleshed out in the interview and you should be good to go.
You're fine ... everyone exagerrates ... ie calling secretary Executive Assistants, stuff like that
Thanks guys. When banks do background checks, do they call employers to see if you actually worked there or do they specifically ask what you did and what they thought of your work?
Wanted to bump an old thread and know about this:
When banks do background checks, do they call employers to see if you actually worked there or do they specifically ask what you did and what they thought of your work?
I have heard that it is illegal for HR to ask former employers for their opinions of you.
Yeah, former employees do not comment on how you were.
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Thats about it. Maybe did the person quit or were they fired. Nothing else.
If you did 3 years at BAML in their IB department and you were going to JPM for IB the MD might know some people and informally check in on you.
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Not an Issue .. everyone with same story . don't worry no one will gonna consider it .
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Yes. They will do employment verification checks, typically.
If you did not work at a certain employer, do not list them on your resume.
If you only got to Associate at a certain employer, don't put VP on your resume.
Resume Exaggeration (Originally Posted: 07/18/2007)
How much would you say you all exaggerate when writing up resume descriptions on past work experience? Not lying, but just making your responsibilities look more than they were. Obviously someone interviewing you for a job could just quiz you on what you did, but is it common place for the interviewer to contact your boss at the previous job and ask about the work experience and quality of work? I'm asking this question in the scenario of looking for a full time job out of college and lightly embellishing some internship work.
Uh, you are supposed to use the best language possible. Please give an example of what you mean.
Remember you are either a) using good active verbs or b) lying.
Not making stuff up that you never did but just making it sound like it was more involved/required more responsibility than it really did.
i guess that works
here is a good example. say you had a 3 month long internship. for only one week you were given a responsibility.
is it ok to put that on your resume as one of the bullet points of your internship?
and you just sat around for 14 weeks? I'd say so, you still were in the office for 40 hours a week (right?)
haha good one
ya i say thats fine, as long as you did do it
Well to be more specific. I am interning at a Hedge Fund of Funds this summer. Most of my work has been sales and marketing type stuff. I have helped some of the due diligence analysts with their work a few times. I'd say maybe 10% of internship was with analysts but one of my bullet points is: • Supported operation due diligence in analysis of possible Hedge Fund investments
Yeah, that is fair game. If you did it, you can put it, even if it wasn't what you did the whole summer.
thats legit in my opinion
For example, last summer I worked at a MM Ibank and made a comps list(screened companies by industry, 1-year trailing revenues, age and 2-year growth rate, then put them in excel side by side and made a model that averages the ratios...lol). This took about 2 hours, btw. That turned into: "Compiled public comparables to assist in valuation of food industry corporation" or something of that nature.
Its just weird looking at your accomplishments after resume formatting.
ThoughtMan, I like the line. I do that shit all the time for the hedge fund I'm interning at (run screens) and have been trying to think of a way to list it on my resume, I might steal some of your wording. Although, it is actually a legitimate task for me that I do on a daily basis. They make me run tons of different comps, kinda gets old.
seers,
Yeah, its tedious but thats what interns and 1st years are for...
But is anyone going to go back to my previous employer and like double check all my resume bullets to make sure i actually did all of those duties that i listed?
I don't think they do, but they could.
They asked me for specific names and locations of my MM internship last year - "what was the name of your manager" and "so where was the office located." I don't think they contacted anyone though, but they certainly could.
Also, they probably have the right to ask you for a resume reference for as long as you work there.
Lieing on Business School Resume--a completely stupid idea or not (Originally Posted: 04/14/2014)
Hi all,
I am applying for an Msc in Banking and Risk @ a highly valued university. Mr undergrad grades so far as not been great and from one of the worst universities in the UK. I have acquired some work experience opportunity as a finance directorate intern at an International institute, which would provide me with a little bit of industry knowledge in agriculture ahhaaha :') but this internship is after graduation (July to September this year).
The problem is that I am applying for one masters programmes at the moment and was thinking if I include it in my resume as already done, but for year 2013 summer, would I get in much trouble. The person who would reference me would most likely be an OLD family friend who is the CFO of the company..I'm assuming the business school would give me a choice of who to provide a reference, and if they ask for one from an employer, I could use another employer or create an email address and act as the employer from the internship.
I'm desperate and have to make it into msc banking/finance at a good university this time. Immaturity, not knowing any better and emotional approach to decision making led me to not shop around for better universities for my undergrad.
How do you advice I best approach this
Thanks for your help ZaK
You cannot possibly be that stupid. I will assume you are just trolling.
You are an idiot
YOLO
Can I get some actual advice please, stupid or not?
You're too lazy/inept to actually accomplish something and instead want to cheat your way in. I sincerely hope you do this and get caught. People like you give the financial services industry a bad name and we don't need any more of your types in it. On a practical note, do you really want your family friend to lie about it? How do you think he'll view you in the future even if he agrees to it. Business school's have been known to use serious background check services so don't just call the reference you want them to. Immensely stupid.
fuck everyone here if you're not going to provide him with useful advice and just call him stupid, why bother commenting? get a life
anyway, as for your question: it's about cost benefit, dude- as i'm sure you know what's the utility from getting in? from not getting in? and the probability you'll get caught? i say just put it on- if you think it'll improve your chances by a fair bit, then it's worth it if they ever call you out on it, just say that before you officially started your internship, you were assigned to do market research/due diligence on your own, and that you felt it qualified
Your last name doesn't happen to be Martoma, does it?
Why stop there? just make up your whole resume with a variety of accolades and internships...you're only limited by your creativity. Make sure to set up several different phone numbers and practice different voices and speaking styles to act as a variety of glowing references for yourself. In this biz you have to hustle. You pick that rabbit out of the hat while everybody sits out there wondering how the hell you did it. Always be closing.
Went to a horrible school? Say you went to a good one.
Got shitty grades? Say they were great.
Had a crummy/low paying job? Say you had a phenomenal job that pays well.
It's easy -- just say it with confidence. Eventually, you'll believe it if you say it often enough.
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