What risk strategies did the interviewer employ? (Shifting, Acceptance, Avoidance, Reduction) Which strategies should (or could) they have utilized? What recourse could a company have if the candidate oversold their skill set?

QUEEN V COGNOS INC (1993) 99 DLR (4TH) 626 (SCC)

Queen, an accountant, had a good job with decent pay but was looking for something different. He saw an advertisement in a Calgary newspaper for a job with Cognos, a high-tech company. Queen applied for the job. During his interview, Queen was told that the position was a permanent one and that the successful applicant would play a lead role in developing a new accounting software program. The interviewer failed to mention that the entire projectincluding the budget for the lead position and the hiring of additional staffwas subject to further approval. Queen took the job. Soon after, Cognos decided to slash the funding allocated to the project. Consequently, no other staff members were hired and, as a result, Queen's job became much less significant. After being dismissed 18 months later, Queen sued Cognos for negligent misrepresentation, claiming that he never would have agreed to leave his former position if Cognos had not inflated the significance of the project and Queen's role in it.