I have the feeling that a lot of people who get hired more easily have less strict ethics about the experience they claim, and I think that it is basically accepted practice to pad your experience: as long as you can do what say you can do, nobody in the IT business cares if you didn't really do quite as much of it in the past as you said. But I, too, feel bound to actually tell the truth about what I've done, and for some reason few people seem to give much credence to my claims that "I haven't done X but I know I could learn it easily". (And most of the people who say it probably are full of crap; but I'm also as honest as I can be in my guesses of how well I can do new things. Learn a new programming language? Diddly simple. Learn my way around your multi-million-line software package I'm supposed to maintain? *AAAIIIIEEE*)