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Previously on "Biggest Blag"
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My first contract role I lied about:
- when and where I had previously done similar work and who for
- number of years experience of the above
- the fact I got fired from my last job
- and the one before that
Work went well. They loved me. Back there now on another project after a gap for another project in the middle. Rate rises all round.
Then again I knew I could do the work, I just had never had able to put Project Manager on my CV even though I had carried most of those deadbeat PMs accross the line.
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analagy
Deep Heat I think it's called.
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Nope. Never blagged. If they ask me do I know X, I'll tell them no.
I expect honesty from them and they expect the same from me.
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don't knock that .Net for Dummies it's very useful for the old fangled dinosaurs who don't have a clue where to start with the new stuff, still after they read it they still don't have a clue
Milan.
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Originally posted by Pondlife View PostSo in short, you read '.net for dummies' and printed off your own certificate?
Dispicable.
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I wouldn't however recommend this strategy, it is not for the faint hearted.
Use this strategy with caution.
Milan.
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Originally posted by milanbenes View Postwell it's like this,
I had the training materials for a certain software product/component
I had the doco for the product/component
I knew the theory and principles inside out from doing similar work, had worked with similar products/components from said vendor for a few years, just didn't know this particular product/component from this vendor
but the principles were the same
like for example, you've only ever driven a Passat, but you're pretty confident if someone gives you the keys to a Phaeton you'll be able to drive it and eventually find all the switches for lights, window wipers etc
using that analagy, studied the course, studied the doco and got a contract, at the time the software component was new and there was nobody in the market place with the skills so it was not like there was lots of competition
that was in the tough times of 2002 after being 8 weeks on the bench, cv was getting no bites, tough times take tough measures...
have worked with the same technology and its evolution for the last 6 years and all orbiting technologies and am proud and happy to say am now defo an expert of said technology
at the time, it was not easy and it was not a holiday, but on the other side as the product was so new there was nobody highly skilled in it anywhere anyway, so nobody really to be bench marked against
Milan.
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well it's like this,
I had the training materials for a certain software product/component
I had the doco for the product/component
I knew the theory and principles inside out from doing similar work, had worked with similar products/components from said vendor for a few years, just didn't know this particular product/component from this vendor
but the principles were the same
like for example, you've only ever driven a Passat, but you're pretty confident if someone gives you the keys to a Phaeton you'll be able to drive it and eventually find all the switches for lights, window wipers etc
using that analagy, studied the course, studied the doco and got a contract, at the time the software component was new and there was nobody in the market place with the skills so it was not like there was lots of competition
that was in the tough times of 2002 after being 8 weeks on the bench, cv was getting no bites, tough times take tough measures...
have worked with the same technology and its evolution for the last 6 years and all orbiting technologies and am proud and happy to say am now defo an expert of said technology
at the time, it was not easy and it was not a holiday, but on the other side as the product was so new there was nobody highly skilled in it anywhere anyway, so nobody really to be bench marked against
Milan.
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Surely the award belongs to Tony and to quote "40 minutes from destruction"
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