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... and vice versa. Job seekers can research prospective employers including social media comments, reviews, and watching their job offerings history for high employee turnover rates indicative of internal problems. But, when was the last time an employer said to a candidate about a job description: "We'll be saddling you with undependable subordinates who were hired for cheap, ghosting peers for whom you'll have to take up the slack, and jackass superiors who got their promotions brownnosing the owners/CEO. Additional duties include being scapegoat for resulting customer dissatisfaction." Job seekers are just doing the same propaganda job on employers that employers have been doing during job interviews forever. Turnabout is fair play.

The savvy job seeker gets an interview that way; but, hands the employer an "updated" resume with no fabrications. That way the candidate doesn't provide the employer with grounds for later being fired for misrepresentation on their application. Any misrepresentations the employer makes will be verbal during the job interview. The employer can create plausible deniability by denying having made any representation; or, claiming there was a misunderstanding and the applicant had the opportunity to ask for clarification.

Playing this game isn't necessary in all career fields; however, in some it's become de rigueur. Some employers are looking for candidates who if they aren't cheating, they aren't trying. The culture, it is a-changing.