6 Little White Lies You Can Tell To Get The Job

6 Little White Lies You Can Tell To Get The JobLying is wrong almost all the time. And you certainly should never lie about your skills or experience in a job interview. Honesty is almost always the best policy. Butthere are a few instances where fibbing cant hurtand might actually help you land the job. googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.display(div-gpt-ad-1467144145037-0) ) 1. OmissionIts okay to leaveone or two jobs off your resume. Maybe you werent there very long. Maybe you were fired or doubt that you would get a stellar reference. Its okay to keep these quiet. Your resume doesnt have to be a comprehensive list of your career whereabouts, just whats most relevant and useful to your interviewer.2. How much you loved your former coworkersEven the mean girls and the power-hungry jerks and the spotlight-hoggers and the total bores. Its okay to lie and say you were honored to work with such a great group. Youll come off as more of a team player. Accentuate the positive Theyll never know you used to grumble about everyone behind their backs the minute you got home.3. Your saintly interestsNobodys interests really consist in charity work, volunteering, and fine arts museums. When it comes down to it, most of us would honestly report TV-watching, martinis, and trashy magazines. But its okay to be a little aspirational. Dont stretch yourself too far stick to an aspirational, but true, version of yourself.4. How fabulous your former boss wasYour last boss was actually a fire-breathing dragon. But there is zero profit in bad-mouthing him to your new potential boss. Try to pick a few good qualities you can mention, and, if all else fails, say you learned a lot.5. Your reason for changing jobsYoure bored out of your mind and you detest your coworkers. Or your company is rumored to be downsizing, and you want to skip town with the rats. Whatever the real reason, its totally fine to say Id love to stay where I am, but this opportunity is just too dazzling to reise pass up. Theyll be flattered, and you wont look like a quitter who abandons ship at first sign of trouble.6. Your greatest weaknessEverybody fudges this one. Dont share your real worst traits. Pick something (again, at least sort of truthful) that you can turn into a positive of sorts. Emphasize how youre working constructively to turn that weakness into a strength. Theyll be impressed with your self-awareness and wont notice that youve just flipped the table on them with their own question.Moral of the story? Dont shoot yourself in the foot in the interests of abject honesty, but do keep mostly to the truth. Itll be easier to remember and hold to what you said.