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GungnirSniper [soylentnews.org] writes:

from the Ethanol-fueled-is-that-you dept.

As someone who has worked to get up the IT ladder, I have been building my LinkedIn connections to help aid further advancement. An ex-colleague and dotted-line-subordinate sent me a request recently. I have not touched his request as his profile has falsified, inflated information about his role at our former mutual company. He lists himself as both a Manager and a Team Lead when he was hired as a Co-Op student and was promoted to a full time Engineer later. He never had any management role or responsibilities.

Of the eight bullet points he lists, seven of them are false or grossly misleading. He uses phrases like "intrusion prevention" and "complex infrastructure configuration" which seems aimed more at the jobs he wants, not the one he actually had. I did not have a good or bad rapport with the guy, so I am unwilling to assume he will say positive things about me if asked. Am I being too cautious here? Is my shunning of this resume-steroids user justified?

How would my fellow Soylentils handle this?

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