• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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      How many employers even check to see if you went to college unless you got a higher level degree? Maybe a few will ask for transcripts, but it’s rare/

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        If they do background checks and you list it on your resume / hiring paperwork, they all do.

        I used to work as a team lead on a call center help desk that had literally no requirements to get the job outside of a 10 question “technical interview” that features questions such as “can you name three programs that are a part of the Microsoft office suite” and periodically we would have new hires get fired once their background check returned that they lied about having a degree that they don’t actually have.

        I don’t know why they lied - degrees aren’t even requested or required for getting the job, but they did and lying on anything that came up on the background check was an immediate termination

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          I’ve had jobs with background checks and they still didn’t care. Maybe in technical fields they do, but I’m in media/marketing/advertising design and production and they have never given a shit.

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        I work for a background checking company… it’s not even close to rare. I know clients that check your education records even if you don’t have any.

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      Me: “I’m the best neurosurgeon in the entire southern hemisphere”

      Interviewer: “Wow! You’re hired! Welcome aboard. Can you start tomorrow?”

      The next day: “Haha bonesaw goes brrrrrrr”