One thing every job seeker knows about job hunting is the hustle is real. When a company needs just three people, thousands apply. So, in their CVs and during interviews, some tell some really crazy lies you really can’t believe just to land that job.
Have look:
1. Age
Nigeria is one of the few places where you find the curious case of people with more than one age – the real age and the other age. In an interview meant for people not older than 25, be sure to find your uncle’s mate claiming to be 23.
2. Skills
Anything to impress the employer. Some claim on their CV that they are computer professionals when they are actually only good with their blackberry and read somewhere that phones are minicomputers.
3. Using big words to cover truths.
You know those students who pay people to write their exams? Well, they graduated and had someone write their CVs. So when they say they are proficient in MS Office, what they really mean is they know there is difference between MS Word and MS Excel but they don’t really know what it is.
4. Packaging previous job experiences.
An average Nigerian job seeker will tell you he is a “maintenance officer” when he means cleaner or “administrative assistant” when he means office errand boy.
5. “I can multi-task”.
The old boy thinks multitasking in the office is the same as watching movies and eating popcorn or chatting on WhatsApp and BBM at the same time.
6. “Ability to work comfortably under pressure”.
What pressure? Cutting beauty sleep to get to work early is all the pressure he really means to give.
7. “I am a team player”.
His university project group member still prays daily that he never gets to work with someone like him. A certified one man MOPOL!
Photo Credits: Bits.Ng, Ndani TV and Comedy Centa
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