Lying in an interview

[ChroniC]

Have you shared this concern with the people you seek employment with and offered them a method to demonstrate your knowledge or addressed this point with them directly. Lying is not the basis to start a new role, it will catch you out.

I have. Hence the thread. They obviously never tell you the reason they choose that particular person over you, but feedback has always been that they found someone who had more "office" experience. Like I'm some tool whose never worked in an office before. Having freelance experience to me, I thought would be a star for being able to run your own business but its feels that it seems like a stain on my cv.
I can only speculate these examples as they aren't forth coming in telling you your downfalls.

 

[Caged]

I think that sounds like a very easy non-discriminatory reason to give you that also doesn't give you any room to push back.

 

[ChroniC]

How do you talk about your experience with the recruiters? Presumably you describe the clients you worked for - "large digital content producer" or whatever, and then are prepared to discuss this actual meat of the project and the client in more detail (obviously depending on contract terms) if required?

If you are doing that and still people are overlooking you then I can't really help but think there's something else that is making them uneasy. Have you had any feedback at all?

Maybe so, finding that something is proving difficult.
I have an extensive portfolio, that I take with me, explain my current situation, whilst trying to explain why I would choose to leave something that seems to be of a similar nature to the "employed" position they are offering. Often they think this is suspicious in itself. Some people can't understand that when you start out on your own why you'd choose to come back unless your failing. Rather than maybe wanting job security, not enjoying doing the admin as much as the work etc and not getting cabin fever.

 

[Caged]

I'd suggest that talking about things like job security and not wanting cabin fever are not helping you. You should be talking about how you want to work as part of a team, gain exposure to larger challenges than you could otherwise get an opportunity to work on, develop with the company etc etc. Keep it positive. Sell it as though you've achieved everything that you can by yourself and now want to move up.

 

[d_brennen]

Last interview I did was for a job that required a SQL cert as a prerequisite. I had everything except said cert so in the interview I just told the truth, I had experience troubleshooting databases and basic admin/querying etc... Adding in "I mean, how hard can it be?"

Got the job, feedback from the interview was that every other candidate had BSd about their SQL experience and even the guys with a cert weren't able to give satisfactory answers... They didn't have the experience

 

[Gzero]

How would someone get to be an SME of X without having any paper evidence of such?

Unless they invented X from first principles in their shed, that's not possible.

It's soo easy to bang on how they have good experience of x y z technologies in the IT world, yet the second asked they are asked to open vsphere and extend a drive... when they fumble their way through that and just stop, err do you know how to extend a partition in the OS?