Here’s my rant on resumes:
Why do people lie on their resumes?
I recently interviewed a candidate who had ‘SQL server DBA’ on their resume – this so called DBA didn’t even know what an index was. How can someone put something on their resume when they don’t know the first thing about it? Do they think they will be able to ‘fake it’ through the interview?
When I interview candidates, I ask a lot of technical questions. Usually after the first 3, I have can tell if they know their stuff.
I’ve noticed more and more people embellishing their resumes… this is doing a disservice to themselves and the people wasting time interviewing them. A SQL server DBA should be able to back up a database, perform basic performance tuning and basic database design.
So what gives? Are people getting hired without technical interviews based on their resumes? What do they do once the get the job and have to produce?
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