What if someone has a year in their life gap on their resume, this year being after graduating. What if said individual has this ap due to having worked for a firm that was involve din dodgy practices, which may well be known or could easily be found out. Is it okay for said individual to claim they were working that year for a government spy agency and cannot go into further detail but left. Can they just say they were working for “the mossad” or something. As its not as though the firm would be able to call them and get any details.
I have personally seen recruiters sympathize and try their best to “accommodate” you in the firm at a suitable position if they see merit in your profile otherwise and the year of passing-out happens to be 2009. Can’t comment about other batches though.
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Don’t get too creative with factual information. When people discover you have been less than truthful they may question your integrity and it can be difficult to recover from that. If you were a very junior person at a firm with a bad reputation most will not hold that against you, particularly if you learned some lessons from that experience.
I guess it oculd get a bit tricky when they ask me to show them some of the ‘krav maga’ moves I learnt while at mossad
soppisoppi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > What if someone has a year in their life gap on > their resume, this year being after graduating. > What if said individual has this ap due to having > worked for a firm that was involve din dodgy > practices, which may well be known or could easily > be found out. > > Is it okay for said individual to claim they were > working that year for a government spy agency and > cannot go into further detail but left. Can they > just say they were working for “the mossad” or > something. As its not as though the firm would be > able to call them and get any details. You don’t need to include everything on your resume. There are lots of random activities in college that I don’t include because they don’t contribute to the application. However, if you were involved in a questionable organization during that gap year, I recommend that you at least disclose it in person, and certainly do it before accepting a job offer.
What if I really did work for the mossad? Then what should I put on my resume?
If you didn’t work for Mossad, then don’t say you did. Resumes can emphasize things and deemphasize others. It’s also understood that sometimes things are written in a way that may make them seem bigger or smaller in importance than they really are. Once you start actually lying on a resume - well, there’s no excuse for that, and any lie that’s discovered will instantly sink you. Even exaggerations are dangerous in that the line between an exaggeration and a lie is often difficult to see, and chronic exaggerators generally cause problems in organizations. If you have a gap in your resume because you worked for a dodgy organization, your best tack is probably to mention it, try to show that you distanced yourself from those practices or learned to spot them. If you have a recruiter working with you, they may help you market yourself. If you are a junior person, and the organization itself is known for being fraudulent from the top, it’s probably understood that you aren’t making the main decisions here. Your best argument is to say that you only worked there a year because once you saw bad things were going on you worked to get out.
Yes but what if I did work in mossad?
If you did work for mossad, then you are already trained for misrepresentation 
No one in the forum could you tell you better than what you already know.
ummm, Oh yeh sorry I forgot. I wont get caught in a lie, ive been through some pretty mad ass interrogations with some groups in the middle east, and survived them, pretty sure I can survive some doosh bag associate from GS
there’s no chance in hell you were in the mossad
course I was