Re:Ask YC: Why the degree?
by jamesbritt on Saturday May 24, 2008 @02:07PM
(#198924)
" Why? Because a person can write anything they want on their resume and you'll never know that they are BSing"
Unless you pick up the phone and make a few calls. There are many things that are trivial to check, such as whether someone actually attended a given school or worked at a given company.
Certainly people can and do BS on their resume and get away with it, but its not because resumes are inherently unverifiable.
Re:Ask YC: Why the degree?
by elai on Sunday May 25, 2008 @03:22AM
(#199410)
By looking the company up in the phone book/internet and calling from there. There might be some cases where endless bureaucracy might get in your way, but in most, it wont.
Unless you pick up the phone and make a few calls. There are many things that are trivial to check, such as whether someone actually attended a given school or worked at a given company.
Certainly people can and do BS on their resume and get away with it, but its not because resumes are inherently unverifiable.