Lying about major on resume
Do banks and other firms actually check what you majored in college? Just curious if people have actually put something different on a job application and it came back to haunt them?
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Are you serious? Yes they absolutely check.
I know some firms don't verify for your internship and then do verify about a month or so before you start your full-time job. At that point, you're absolutely screwed if you lied. Would strongly suggest you don't do that.
That's gotta be the dumbest thing to lie about in your resume considering how IB doesn't really discriminate between degrees if you're at a target (unless you major in creative writing). Plus you have to submit transcripts and its the easiest thing for HR to factcheck you on.
It really is a gamble.
I went to an Ivy League undergrad for pre med. I joined a frat, partied and was asked to take a year off due to poor grades. I interned at a regional bank during that time off. They thought I had graduated lol cause I applied through my school career website and I never corrected them.
After a year I went back to school and got a degree in psychology. My gpa was 2.3. I knew I wanted to do banking cause of the money, but what bank would hire someone who took a year off and graduated with a horrible gpa when they could hire 4.0 kids that majored in finance at my school?
So I gambled. I used a resume for my school career database but I didn’t list my major or gpa. And I stressed I took a year off and actually worked at a bank. I got interviews with some great banks because my school is Ivy and during interviews I was of course asked about my story and gpa. I just straight up said I had a 3.7. No one ever checked and your transcript is secret.
At the bank I joined they did fire a kid for lying, but he basically didn’t graduate from college. He was like a few credits short and when HR finally got around to checking they caught him.
This is insane
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