RE: Need help getting started

I agree, if you have no experience and take the exams it will give you some level of knowledge about oracle. I have started taking these exams and recognize one issue with getting certified. It's great and all, but it's like any other test. You can study your arse off and pass with flying colors, but 2 months later you will probably be looking something up in a book that you knew on the exam. Just a thought. KK

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Dear Viraj,

I can totally understand how you feel.

But I hope you can appreciate that it takes a lot of courage and perseverance for a person who doesn't know Oracle to take any of the OCP papers. Many of us have to do a lot of additional studies on top of the Oracle training material inorder to move painstakingly from one paper to another.

Everyone has to start somewhere. I think that anyone who can pass the OCP papers, whether or not they have the practical experience, should be given the credit, encouragement and opportunities.

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To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 23:15:45 -0800

I dont want to sound rude here, and my comments are NOT directed at you personally.

What is the standard of these OCP's, when a person who has not worked with oracle, can pass them, for the sake of discussion it does not matter which tests they were? It seems doing an OCP is a complete waste of time!

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On Tue, 19 Jun 2001 19:15:24
  Sllewnerak wrote:


 >This is kind of a different Oracle question. Does anyone have any

suggestions


 >how a person can land an entry level job. I do not work in the Technology

 >field but would very much like to. I have been going to school at night

for


 >about two and a half years

 >and have the first two OCP developers tests behind me and am working on

the


 >third now. I have a 3.9 GPA and can't even get an interview. How do you

get


 >experience if no one will hire you? I have even offered to work for free

in


 >the evenings or on my days off. I live in Minneapolis and would really

 >appreciate any suggestions that anyone might have. Thanks,

 >Karen




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