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They asked me how well I understood theoretical physics. I said I had a theoretical degree in physics. They said welcome aboard.

Career pro-tip: Lie on your resume!

If anyone is curious, they will fire you if you fabricate this level of education. Lie on your resume? Sure. Totally fabricate education and experience you don't have? Fruad.

Even if you don't agree with this guy, you have to admit his credentials are impressive!

Please advise, my landlord won't accept LinkedIn DMs as rent payment.

To be fair there’s a lot of wealthy people like Trump who bought their degree

He's talking about an MBA, not an actual degree.

No one checks. No one questions.

Any Fortune 500 company is going to check, particularly if you're aiming for a job in upper management.

And if you're working a government contract, you're almost certainly going to get a background check for any kind of security clearance.

Justin Fulcher agrees!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2025/03/04/pentagon-doge-official-justin-fulcher/

Things techbros imagine they've invented:

• Trains
• Friendship
• Fraud

I'm pretty sure this is the opening plot to the TV show Community.

As with most things, if you are competent, a degree doesn't really matter. The degree is just a shortcut, and even if it's checked it's no guarantee you are otherwise competent. You're expected to have picked up competency during the time you got your degree.

So this probably works if you are otherwise competent, but if you're not it's just lead to increased scrutiny (Because hey, you should know these things) and if someone does end up checking up on you it's a great way to get fired with cause. Depending on how tight knit your industry is that can still make things very hard for you.

And of course, once this becomes frequent enough, you'd be surprised how quickly checking will become the norm again.

What if I already have a master's but still can't find a job?

I was a hiring manager in aerospace for decades. We for sure checked transcripts before a start date.

I also just don't get people who lie on their resumes. That would cause me so much anxiety. Even for things I have training or experience with, I always worry people are going to expect me to be more proficient than I am. I had I guy put that he was fluent in a computer language that I'm not sure he'd ever seen, so everyone was always frustrated with him and he eventually got laid off.

You don't need to lie on your resume for it to stand out and be impressive.

First, stop listing "duties" and generalized things for the role. As somebody that's done a few hundred interviews, I quickly bin those resumes. I have a good understanding of what a related role's duties are that would make you qualified for a role I'm interviewing for.

Your goal in a resume is to show the hiring team of what you can provide to the team/company if you are brought on board.

What you should do is keep track of you work successes and KPIs and periodically update your resume with those successes and metrics for that role. Got a top performer review status, log it. Increased sales for the department by some % for the year, log it. Delivered a highly complex & valuable project, log it.

If you do the above, I can have a good understanding of what you're actually capable of and how you utilize the skills you have within a role.