Post #2188272
2025-12-20 16:32 UTC
@matthewcroughan@social.defenestrate.it @joomy@functional.cafe
Yes. When getting work permits for Argentina, my boss and I had to submit college transcripts, translated and certified, to show that were were "professionals" and "expert in the technologies."
But for both of us, college was more than 30 years in the past. None of the technologies were were using, selling, or training them on existed back then.
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@richh@cupoftea.social 2025-12-22 08:16
@JeffGrigg@mastodon.social @matthewcroughan@social.defenestrate.it @joomy@functional.cafe My dad had a colleague who bought (and expensed) a PhD from a dodgy Caribbean “university” in the early 2000s. Their employer needed them to go somewhere to work for their local subsidiary doing local dealer training. The visa they needed was open to people with “unique product knowledge” (I.e. no local would have the knowledge, a foreigner is the only option for the role). Due to local cultural norms, this meant being a Dr. Even if your Doctorate cost you £1500 off the internet… (the colleague was an MEng or MSc to start with anyway).