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On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 2:15 PM, Lesli Ritchie <Lesli -dot- Ritchie -at- mediware -dot- com>
wrote:
> That sounds fishy to me. I would not change my resume to reflect things I
> haven't done...that's called lying. I'd be interested to know why they want
> you to make the changes.
>
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> Subject: What would you do?
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> I have been corresponding with a recruiting firm about a possible job as a
> SharePoint administrator, and they asked me to change my resume. The job
> description includes some things that I have never worked with, such as
> Infopath. The recruiter asked me to edit my resume to show experience with
> about half a dozen things I've never done, to match things in the
> description, and email him that new version.
>
> I won't say what I've done or not done - I'm interested in your thoughts
> about it.
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