British Expats - IT Industry Canada

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Originally Posted by Ignition

Far from unknown though, as I've seen looking at my own manager going through the resumes on his desk. My personal favourite so far a guy who invented a job, sadly someone in this dept worked for that same company in that same department at the same time as this guy alledgedly did :D

I claimed to know a computer language I'd never seen. I did know other languages so on the first day on the job I rooted around for a sample program, stole the gist of it and started churning them out. After a while the firm laid off other people and gave me their work.

Later I learned that the boss didn't believe anything on the resumes anyway, he just hired people who had generous agents and dumped them if they didn't work out. That's the big advantage of contracting, the boss can dump you on any whim so he's not taking much of chance in giving you a shot. I'd be surprised if the government agencies here have ever hired a contractor on merit; they usually pick the one who comes with a free TV.