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Excuse me sakky, because I thought that this discussion would be one based on intellect and analysis of the debated points, but you think it appropriate to call me naive and a fool.
I will not reciprocate. In fact, I would say you certainly you have points, and I do think that you are correct in your assessment that a job application may be considered a business negotiation in itself, that knowledge is power, so on and so on. But my thinking is transcendental of this point.
Practically speaking, if the HR staff were to determine that I was presenting misleading information on my application, I may not get the job, or be fired after the job was awarded. But since we are now talking about business, I have found in my years running a business that the best practice for long term success and growth is not cut throat negotiation or "misleading and withholding information", but fair minded business practices based on a foundation honesty. This keeps the clients coming back. Certainly your friend felt burned by the situation of moving his family to a new city only to get fired. This leaves a bad taste in the mouth of the former employee. Should these types of practices extend to the customer/client, I believe their eventual demise in one way or another to be inexorable. Of course there are reasonable exceptions. Perhaps omitting information that would make you seem more qualified and thus less likely to be hired is one instance. But in the wide view, the general philosophical distinction that I outlined above has served me well in business. I suppose this is my pragmatic nature. Or maybe I'm only a lucky naive fool.
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