Usual John calls out to Geezers: “Any reference to Little Lulu, which stopped publication in 1984, is pretty much for geezers, but Dell did not publish the title after 1962 and John Stanley stopped working on it around 1959.”
This reminds me of a fine example of resume enhancement.
I was preparing to interview a candidate who was getting an advanced statistics degree from Northern Illinois University, a respectable institution. He had a link to his website, so I checked that before the interview, and saw that all across the top of the page he had a large picture of himself in front of the building housing the statistics department … at Northwestern, a very respectable institution.
When asked about that, he said, “I was on the faculty at Northwestern”. And, sure enough, he’d listed a faculty job at CTD, Northwestern. As it happens, I knew that CTD stood for the Center for Talent Development, a summer program for middle schoolers and high schoolers on the Northwestern campus. My daughter had attended that for some summers; the instructors were good, but not regular Northwestern faculty. In fact, my daughter was one of the instructors herself one summer. So, he’d actually taught a group of middle schoolers math during one summer, and had expanded this into being on the faculty at Northwestern.
He did not get a job offer.
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I like the resume enhancement story. In 2001 I was at a dot-com (which lasted five months, but that’s another story). At one point the sales manager showed up at my cubicle with a resume. “This guy says he knows you.” I look at it: I had worked with the guy at my first software vendor, where I met my wife. I look a little closer, laugh, and hand it back: “Yeah, we worked together. But it says he was top rep at VMSG from 1986-1990. I’m married to the top rep at VMSG from 1986-1990, and her name isn’t ‘Chuck’!”
You’d think he might have realized this–it was a 30-person company, so it’s not like I wasn’t going to remember who the top rep was, even if my wife hadn’t been the one. Like your candidate, he did not get an offer.
Academic resume padding is also a hallmark of quack medicine and pseudoscience in general. Fact checkers will be kept busy as Trump and RFK Jr. parade more appointees.
Back in the day, was tempted to include the following on my own resume:
“Have written articles for New Yorker, Playboy, Mad, and other top publications. One of them almost sold.” Later won the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest (#660) and realized I could technically claim publication in that magazine.
Congratulations on that caption contest win.
Well, I played the piano in a recital at Carnegie Hall!
You may be picturing me on stage in the big concert hall, as if I were Vladimir Horowitz. It was actually in the small hall known as Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. I played piano to accompany a flute recital. The flutist hired the hall for the recital. You can do that. But still.
Some New York City piano teachers hire Weill Hall for a recital by their first-year students. So there are a lot of little kids in and around Manhattan who can truly say they performed at [Weill Recital Hall at] Carnegie Hall.