Finally, someone who also thinks in a sensible way on hiring.
In Toronto, I keep seeing all these job posting of companies that need people with 10 years in social media experience, or 10 years in mobile app development and it's quite laughable how they are able to hire those people.
I'm curious how those people can actually perform.
Fake resumes. Indian tech shops specialize in this (I'm Indian btw). Fake resumes are extremely common among Indian tech workers. I was asked by one IT body shop to write 7 years of Java experience even though I had none. I routinely run into resumes where people sometimes write more years of experience with a package than the number of years the package has existed.
I'm interested in how that kind of thing prevails. Is it because the purpose of the lie is just to get past HR screening, and after that competent people just learn the language they lied about on their CV? I can't imagine that would work though, I mean how does someone get past a technical interview with a fake CV?
That will get you a job in the short term, but isn't great for a career that will last until retirement.
But as far as I can tell, the candidate crams for the tech screen, learns the basics between offer letter and start date, and picks up the rest as they work. The dirty little secret is that nobody actually needs any specific experience to do the job. You just need a decent brain and an Internet connection, and just enough people skills to fake it until you make it.
But it probably works better in larger organizations, where none of the people who would be able to detect the deception are involved in the interview process. You don't need to fool your peers if you can fool your boss.
It never would have worked in any of the smaller companies that I have interviewed with, as they have all (perhaps coincidentally) been ultra-paranoid about resume frauds, for some reason.
The dirty little secret is that nobody actually needs any specific experience to do the job. You just need a decent brain and an Internet connection, and just enough people skills to fake it until you make it.
Very true, and this is why these keyword searches are so absurd. It wouldn't be difficult to setup the entire hiring process (applications as well as interviews) around that dirty little secret.
Consulting companies may need to inflate staff CVs to be competitive with other consulting companies in the eyes of clients, even if they internally know it's bullshit.
It happens at major companies as well. A friend's younger brother got into Chase bank as a Java dev after listing 6 years of Java experience. He had zero years of experience and was only 24.
The ones claiming having 10 years exps of social media and mobile app development use their social media skills to look for cheap mobile app developers and pay them to do their works. Their clients/managers do not know and do not care.
In Toronto, I keep seeing all these job posting of companies that need people with 10 years in social media experience, or 10 years in mobile app development and it's quite laughable how they are able to hire those people.
I'm curious how those people can actually perform.