Your company urgently needs a new manager in another division, and you have been invited to apply for the position. However, one of the job requirements is competence in the use of some sophisticated CAD (computer aided design) software. Currently you do not have that competence, but you are enrolled in a CAD course, so eventually you will have that competence (but not before the deadline for filling the new job). The application form for the job requires you to state whether or not you have the necessary CAD software competence. Is it ethically permissible to claim that you have (in order to get the job for which otherwise you are well qualified), even though strictly speaking this is not true? Would your answer be any different if your current boss informally (off the record) advised you to misrepresent your qualifications in this way, giving as his/her reason that you are overall the best qualified person for the new managerial position?
Your company urgently needs a new manager in another division, and you have been invited to apply for the position. However, one of the job requirements is competence in the use of some sophisticated CAD (computer aided design) software. Currently you do not have that competence, but you are enrolled in a CAD course, so eventually you will have that competence (but not before the deadline for filling the new job). The application form for the job requires you to state whether or not you have the necessary CAD software competence. Is it ethically permissible to claim that you have (in order to get the job for which otherwise you are well qualified), even though strictly speaking this is not true?
Would your answer be any different if your current boss informally (off the record) advised you to misrepresent your qualifications in this way, giving as his/her reason that you are overall the best qualified person for the new managerial position?
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