Telling fibs to get a job

[Charlie Bravo]

If you want the job then go for it. You don't have to tell your employer why you are leaving or where you are going..... it has nothing to do with them.

 

[Sequoia]

I start a graduate training scheme on Septmeber 4th. I have applied for a job as a delivery driver with a local supermarket and if I get an interview I'm not sure whether I should tell them I'm only available til September.
Obviously it would reduce my chances of getting the job - if I don't tell them I could still do a good job for them for about 6 or 7 weeks (I don't think they will spend much time training me to drive a van).

Morals vs money

In general, I'd advise against telling fibs, but it generally relates to claiming qualifications or experience you don't have. If I caught, and could prove, an employee had done that, the likely outcome would be instant dismissal for gross misconduct. If I caught someone in that type of lie, the relationship would probably have irretrievably broken down, as I would neither trust their basic honesty, nor be able to have any faith in anything else they said or did.

But .... simply not telling the employer you don't intend to be there long, well, it's hardly in the same category. It's more omission for vested self-interest than lying .... especially if you can avoid directly answering with a fib. And, you're not looking for anything beyond short-term work anyway.

 

[crashuk]

dont tell them

 

[sinister_stu]

Many references have a complete absence of any subjective opinions .... and that often speaks volumes, by inference.

What does it infer though? That the company doesn't allow its employees to give subjective references? or does it suggest a bad reference?

If a reference from an employer only consists of dates and times, then that is all that the policy of the company will allow, regardless of whether it would be a good or bad reference.

 

[Zefan]

Thanks for clearing that up, it has been playing on my mind too actually

 

[reflex]

If its a big company then they expect high staff turnover, so i wouldn't worry