Summary- Don’t lie about your career or experience.
Someone at our company recently noticed an online resume from a person who was doing computer support for us. His online profile is pasted below. We were all amazed at the great person he seems to be on paper.
A bunch of funny points were-
-we have never had anyone entitled “Senior SE” or “Developer” on our team
-we don’t have any blade servers in our Datacenters, nor at any of our partners
-his migrations to Exchange 2007 were close to executed (not planned) about as well as the Titanic’s maiden voyage.
-he maintained a MS CRM that he took down for 3 weeks, by which time the sales team was furious and had put in a better CRM system themselves. They soon after deemed him “Dr. Death” after he messed up their notebook PCs and didn’t want him touching anything of theirs.
-He started working here in January 2007 (not 2006). He was given his second performance warning on 1 July 2008 on his way to termination. Essentially, most of what he listed has already been rebuilt.
The list goes on and on. I am amazed to see someone outright lie about so much. Why is it that some people just don’t get it? We’ve got to realize some people will never change.
If you are managing a team, make sure it is your priority to focus on winners. If you have losers in your midst, relieve them as quickly as possible. In this particular case, we should have acted sooner but we really wanted to see this guy grow and develop into someone who could contribute to the company and even society. He was just a mess.
I am very excited about the great team we have. It takes time to read people but once you get it, you can build a great team. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t give people chances, we’ve just got to realize, some people just never get it. I am excited because AINEO is truly an elite engineering team getting stronger and stronger.
It is a great sign when quality people come back to your firm. We have welcomed back two great engineers this year and can see their contributions already.
QUOTED FROM www.linkedin.com
Senior Systems Engineer/Developer
Introduction of new systems
Development of database applications
User support
Migrated mail server to Exchange 2007
Deploy fully hosted Exchange 2007 Environment (segregated GAL)
Cisco Per To Per VPN Global planning to 8 Sites
Network Upgrade into 2003 wireless Mail services
Virtualization Blade Servers Deployment
System Integration coordination ( Cisco IP VLANs)
Firewall Deployment ISA for Hosted Exchange and Web Servers
ASA Cisco Deployment (PPPoe, VPN, Firewall)
Project Management Office Moves
Database Integration (SQL Sever 2005, Oracle)
Project Management Build ups, Moves, Migration, System Planning
Cpanel Servers for Resellers