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Lying in interviews/generally
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After telling the RAF AFCO fella that I've had one or two migraines I was then told that aircrew, intel and air traffic controlled were out of the question...that's the interesting ones ruled out then! But now I have an interview for officer training for the Navy on Tuesday. How much should I disclose to them? I also have had NHS acupuncture for a bad back (my back looks a bit curved if I don't stand up straight and hurts like a bastard after a long day). Is it worth lying to get in, or at least enough to get me to the admiralty interview?
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I've just finished Uni and want temp work to allow me to save and go travelling somewhere nice...anywhere away from here. How the hell do I lie in a covering letter when applying for temp jobs? I mean how do I come across as genuine when applying to work as an administrator in a frozen food company for example
Cheers guys, not a great lier.
Also,
I've just finished Uni and want temp work to allow me to save and go travelling somewhere nice...anywhere away from here. How the hell do I lie in a covering letter when applying for temp jobs? I mean how do I come across as genuine when applying to work as an administrator in a frozen food company for example
Cheers guys, not a great lier.
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Of course, you don't *have* to bring up negative points, unless they specifically ask, though any medical condition would, I expect, be obvious when you go through the medical.
Err as everyone else says i don't think its worth lying though - you'll just get found out at the medical or later - i'm sure they would check your medical records - though obv if you just randomly had a migrane and didn't tell anyone official then they are never going to find out and ifyou did them develop one at a later date you could always blame it on your employer.
I'm sure noone wants to have a crappy temping job for anything other than the money, so I dont' recon they would expect you to say its your dream job - focus more on what you can offer to them - Depending on what sort of job it is you might even be able to get away with saying i'm doing it to earn money to go away travelling and get experience of the working world.
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You suffer from Rheumatoid Arthritis, or any other bone or joint disorders.
I had read that before and it's not very specific. It's not like I have scoliosis or anything like that just an undiagnosed "condition". I was supposedly having an x-ray but the appointment is still being processed.
As with the migraine thing I did go to the doctors about 5 years ago after my 2nd ever and was just prescribed ibuprofen, nothing stronger like anti-depressants so the doc must've thought that it was just an acute stress related thing. When I had one recently, I went to the opticians for a check-up as I had been using light and electron microscopes so it sounds like it's a stress and optical thing.
Thanks for the advice guys. I'll play it by ear at the interview tomorrow. Cheers
Its not that weird , even in these days of technology good eyesight can be essential to stop you bumping into things or things with explosive bumping into you. and they are getting must enough that they don't need to lower the standards.
You will at some point have to do a medical and they'll probably find out then.