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Foxx
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27 Jan 2020, 9:36 pm

"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with BS." - W. C. Fields

It really, really depends on the job. "Faking" can be easy in jobs where charisma is needed, for example salesmen or management positions. Here, soft skills are needed, and your results are on paper.
Results on paper are reasy to fake - especially when it comes to numbers. Adding a zero or adding a 4 is that easy.
The actions are abstract and immeasurable. Luck plays a bigger role in those jobs - you can affect luck by performing certain actions, but in the end, you're lucky if there aren't any conflicts or if a client decides to choose you or your product.

Now, if you are in a "hard skill" field - like IT or carpentry, it's easy to weed out the fakers. Whether it's atrocious code, useless design or a shoddy cupboard - bad handiwork can be seen from miles away provided the eyes of the beholder are experienced enough.
The actions here are very visible and can be easily measured - luck has no business here, only skill.

That doesn't mean "hard skill" jobs are free from fakers - they might be able to do the task just well enough to pass - but usually a dead giveaway is unwillingness in changing "their" way of doing things, usually because it's the only way they know how.

In my main field - programming - the real skill is in solving a problem with code and designing a solution to deal with it in the best ay possible. However, there are lots of "code monkeys" and "bootcampers" out there - Yes, they may be able to code, but they need someone else to solve the underlying problem.
In the field, these individuals are said to be "unable to code themselves out of a wet paper bag" - ie. unable to solve a simple, abstract problem.
Any idiot can make a program that adds two numbers or reads from a database or a file... However, designing a system that synchronizes sensitive data over the internet while packaging that in a usable UI is a completely different matter.

I've never faked it when going for jobs - I never had to...



Rainbow_Belle
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27 Jan 2020, 9:46 pm

I can not fake it until I make it because I got Aspergers.