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Conversation Colloquial English 1
When you're applying for a job, do you think it's OK to slightly exaggerate on your CV?
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I think it's a terrible, terrible idea to even slightly exaggerate because I think it
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will always come back to hurt you. I think being as honest as you can, I think it doesn't
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matter if you can't do something. If you'll say, I'm willing to learn, I'm a good learner,
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I have these skills, I'm really open to learning some new ones. But to go into an interview
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or write on your CV, I can speak a very average amount of French when you don't know anything.
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You might find yourself in a situation where you've wasted their time and you've just made
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yourself look really, really silly. Yeah, I think it's a terrible idea. And I would
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feel really uncomfortable. I'd say I'm quite an honest person. So if I can't do something,
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I'll just say it.
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I've definitely exaggerated on a CV. I think you have to be, I mean, I would still consider
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myself an honest person. And I'm not going to say I speak fluent Chinese when I don't.
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But I think I've done it when it wouldn't be an essential skill for the job, maybe just
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to pad, well, not even pad things out, because I'm talking very small exaggerations here,
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but where it's more for the optional side of things, just to make it look a bit more
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like, I might put a language on there that, yeah, I can read a postcard or I can understand
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an airport announcement, but if you ask me to actually speak it, but I wouldn't do that
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if I knew the job was going to require me speaking that language, because like you say,
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you're going to be potentially in a very awkward situation if that ever comes up. And I have
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had job interviews where they suddenly start speaking to you in another language to check
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whether you speak the language or not. So, but I think white lies are okay, personally.
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I swing between both. You shouldn't outright lie, because you will get caught out. And
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if it's a lot of the times, it could cost a company a lot of money, if they employ you
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to do a job, and then when you turn up, you cannot do it, or to the ability that you have
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told them you could, and there's a lot of people to be affected. So you shouldn't lie,
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because you will be asked to use it. But the question didn't say where on the CV. So I
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agree with you, because when you're talking about hobbies, that is to see what sort of
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person you are, whether they would like you to work with them. So if you're quite a boring
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person, and you don't have many hobbies, I think you should exaggerate a few to make
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yourself look a little bit more interesting. So I cook every single night, but that doesn't
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mean I enjoy cooking, but I'm happy to put down that I love cooking.
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- Alberto O.
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- 13 de octubre de 2022 - 12:15
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