Some companies do background checks.
this post was submitted on 06 May 2025
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It's true. I finished grad school well over a decade ago, not once has anyone verified my education. They haven't even requested transcripts.
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But my MSc was fully funded and I got to spend a year in cheap accommodation with subsidised beer, free fibre internet, and local Counter-Strike opponents.
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i onced followed someone profile on linkein i was with in my las semester almost a decade ago, and he was totally bsing his lab experience, because he told me before hand he dint have much or any lab experience, then every semester i saw him adding 1 years to his resume, then after he added 2 years, he was eventually hired. yea you have to bs your way.
I'm pretty sure this is the opening plot to the TV show Community.
I thought you have a bachelor's from Columbia?
And now I have to get one from America. And it can't be an e-mail attachment.
Even if you don't agree with this guy, you have to admit his credentials are impressive!
If the education provider no longer exists can you just claim what ever you like?
Because genuinely the provider of the apprenticeship I have got busted for fraud and they collapsed incredibly quickly. Can I just make up the qualifications I got with them?
Totally. I was the Executive Vice President of Radio Shack, so you know you should take my advice.
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Things techbros imagine they've invented:
- Trains
- Friendship
- Fraud