Are you looking for a tech job in US?

Dear Mausam,
How much do you lie?
How do you decide your limit i.e. "I can lie about this but not about this"?

In my search for a technical job I started off with the usual mode of finding a job i.e. uploading my resume to various job sites, forwarding my resume to my bro's friends, going through the newspaper classifieds about various job openings. But all this didnt result in any great success coz of my limited technical expertise.
Somebody suggested that I should get in touch with consultants who train you for a couple of weeks and then place you in some big companies. Well I had heard similar stories in India too but couldnt imagine people getting placed for salaries in excess of 55K just by a couple of weeks training. Reluctantly I also decided to join the bandwagon and got in touch with few consultants through Sulekha.com. Well the response from these consultants was overwhelmingly encouraging. And then I started understanding the modus operandi of the technical field in US.

The US technical market is flooded by indians (South indians and andhra pradeshiz. I think punjabiz still prefer Truck, taxi and the medical profession). Every consultant i had a chance to speak with had a distinctly south indian accent. Now I found out that these consultants train you on a particular skill set for a few weeks (infact they train fo a few weekends, so itz generally 4-5 days and thatz it) and then they arrange for your interview with some "big shot client".
If you get selected then you work in the "big company" as an employee of your trainer and your work is on project basis and these projects are of 3, 5 months or a year's duration. The catch lies in the "big company" paying you not directly but through the trainer. And these trainers are the ones who exploit! They promise you a moon but when they have to pay you itz generally peanuts (not all trainers are the same though) The trainers hold your pay until you start working for them on a new project. They don't even pay for the time period between the new and the old project, and this time peiod sometimes extends into months.
Now this is not the REAL problem. Problem lies in the lies!(is this a grammatically correct sentence?) Aseem, a friend of my bro, suggested that the trainers generally make changes to your resume to suit the clients requirement and before joining I should make sure that I am comfortable with that. Well the trainer who trained me for a couple of days and had scheduled an interview for me also said the same thing, that he will make some changes in the resume to satisfy the requirement of the client. So while forwarding the resume to the end client he also mailed a copy of my new-updated resume to me.
I had a shock of my life when I saw what all was written in there. The only thing I could relate with my resume was my name. Other than that all was greek to me! I had'nt even heard about most of the skills sets written there. That resume meant that I had a 7 years work ex in US and I worked in chicago,washington, boston on various projects. When I asked him, "Sir how am i gonna clear the interview?", he said "just say anything, make up things but sound confident you will sail through because your english is good"!
I am no Harishchandra but I can't lie so blatantly. I mean my truth quotient will not allow me to be such a big lier. He even asked me to conceal my visa status. During my subsequent discussions with other people I found that all this was a norm and itz only the indians who practise this. The poor goras believe in trust but as itz often said "Assi jithe jaida Punjab bana laida", this saying is true for every indian. Why do we believe in doing thing the wrong way? I am still wondering why is this nationwide scandal not out in the open? fake resumes are a norm in US, so next time if someone says "my son is working in a technology company in US", cross-checking their resume wont be that bad an idea.
I am glad I didnt opt about accepting the lie maybe coz I knew I had other options. Some people are not as lucky as I am.
Regards,
Ajj Kaim