Reply to: Faking experience

[Phoenix]

Is there anyone who has never told a few porkies on their CV in order to enhance their prospects of winning the contract?

Me an Bill Gates were only talking about this yesterday

[Spartacus]

Is there anyone who has never told a few porkies on their CV in order to enhance their prospects of winning the contract?

[wc2]

Does £6500 get you a course that then gets you the SAP contracts?

Should buy you an ABAP course.

Don't know what the going rate for ABAP is, The last time I looked as about 600 p/d

[expat]

Jobserve, contract only, last 7 days, .NET, 600 contracts.
Jobserve, contract only, last 7 days, SAP, 1286 contracts.

Yep, the guy was an arse.

SAP it is.

Does £6500 get you a course that then gets you the SAP contracts?

[wc2]

As a very young WC2 - Out of college - Could not get any IT work - So I got a job in a Postroom - For 2 bloody years tried to get a start - No experience - No Job.

So I got a little creative with my CV and got an interview for a Novell sysadmin job - Read a book the night before - Got the job - Fake reference from a colleague who backed up my story of all the experience.

It was for a bank - Don't really know how I pulled it off.

[DimPrawn]

Self-taught with a six week intensive course which cost £6500. All to learn a system which no-one uses.

SAP, SAP, SAP I tell you!!!!!!

Milan

Jobserve, contract only, last 7 days, .NET, 600 contracts.
Jobserve, contract only, last 7 days, SAP, 1286 contracts.

Yep, the guy was an arse.

SAP it is.

[Joe Black]

Well done that man!

Self-taught with a six week intensive course which cost £6500. All to learn a system which no-one uses.

SAP, SAP, SAP I tell you!!!!!!

Milan

[mcquiggd]

Im thinking of downgrading some aspects of my CV as everyone wants me to be either a manager or a 'consultant'..... i.e. galavanting all over the shop while the company makes a mint out of you. No, ta.

[DimPrawn]

Gone from dead in the water mainframe COBOL mainframe to .NET guru in 12 months. Self-taught with a six week intensive course which cost me £6500.

Would never have stood a chance of getting a contract without blagging some experience. About to start my 4th .NET gig on Monday and the phone rings off the hook most days.

Doesn't really matter so long as you can back up the blagging with decent productivity and quality of work.

Well done that man!

[Gruntfuttock]

Once got a 500/day contract for 2 weeks because I was the only one on the agent's database who new what the acronym 'GLDI' stood for! I didn't know how it worked, but still finished the work on the second day as it turned out they were using the wrong tnsnames file! Duh! Then spent the rest of the time writing* the manual. They were suitably impressed.
*Copy and paste from the real thing.

[Francko]

I once told a client I'm a .NET guru when in reality I change backup tapes all day.

I thought they all started like this.

[n5gooner]

I once told a client I'm a .NET guru when in reality I change backup tapes all day.

Milan.

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[DimPrawn]

I once told a client I'm a .NET guru when in reality I change backup tapes all day.

Milan.

[Antman]

a friend of mine once got a job as a buyer for a tea company because he told them he was "interested in tea"

[Cliphead]

I was put forward for a Notes development job for a bank, the interviewer was on business in europe so we did a telephone interview. He asked me what was the extent of my experience to which I replied 'I read an article once in a magazine'.

I got the contract...

I came clean 6 months later at the xmas party and he did mention that they got slightly worried when on my first day I asked where the manuals were kept.

Finished the job to everyone's satisfaction but this sure ain't the only time I've resorted to bulltulip to get the job.