blag

Extract the UX part and the article could be a primer on how to blag your way in pretty much anything.

As for salary, that's going to be whatever you can blag off of your employer.

The difference here is that Egypt can hardly afford this so they have to blag the money off of Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

How long can you blag this kind of thing though?

The language in the Atlantic blag is out of control.

The mozilla blag this links says this: For extensions that will never be publicly distributed and will never leave an internal network, there will be a third option.

I used to walk past the Liverpool Echo building with printing works in the basement (you could blag an early edition if you asked nicely at the back entrance, and the ink would still be drying).

The folks you're trying to hire are smart enough to tell you what you want to hear about company culture, smart enough to blag about commerical experience they don't really have, and smart enough to realise being honest didn't get them the job when they tried it.

In addition to impugning the credibility of the authors (which maybe we can wave our hands in the air and say isn't fair), that blag says silly things like this: For example, for the Verstraeten study, the Geiers reference an article that is more of a summary, and complain that it shows no data.

I'd be happy to - though I guess I'll have to get one of those "blag" things the kids talk about.

My own personal aphorism when talking down someone who is annoyed at their compensation compared to a colleague's, is "you don't get paid what you are worth, you get paid what you can blag".

It seems the likely outcome is scaring away the "shy but potentially good" candidates like the guy in your example, while favouring self-confident types who are able to talk up their skills and blag their way through.