Would you hire someone who lied on their LinkedIn profile by nearly doubling their tenure with a company by including time working elsewhere?

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...instead of representing their break in employment with two job listings, separated by the job they worked in between?

This is on their LinkedIn and their resume, if it makes a difference to you.

They started working for company A in 2016 before 
resigning in 2017 to join company L.
After two years with company L, they were laid off, and rejoined company A in 2019.They list their tenure with company A as 2016-present.

Imagine working somewhere for five years, only for your experience with your company to be considered equal to the person who left for two of those five years of their own volition.

Mr. Smartypants · Answer

One place I worked in the 80s, whenever a manager got tired of a guy and wanted to get rid of him, he'd ask Personnel for his file and look at his resume. Apparently EVERY resume had some lies on it, so you just had to check out his education claims and previous jobs and you'd find it. Then you could fire him for lying on his resume. Even if he'd been there 5 years.

I never had to lie on a resume, but it was always people above my pay grade. Middle managers, etc.

I never had to lie on a resume, but it was always people above my pay grade.  Middle managers, etc.

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Would you hire someone who lied on their LinkedIn profile by nearly doubling their tenure with a company by including time working elsewhere?

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