Re: first there is a mountain, then there is no mountain...

I don't know about the "desperate" part - I don't think there are a lot of ex-DBAs here standing in soup lines. However, the impression is that each of them called every potential candidate they knew immediately, trying to get a lock on any potential commission. Like I said, four of them I had never heard of before this. Most likely those particular recruiters got my name from calling professional aquaintances. It was the sheer volume of calls in such a short time about a single opening that struck me as unusual... Like they didn't have anything else going on.

-Don Granaman
[certifiable OraSaurus]

• Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 3:20 AM

> > I got calls from six different recruiters within two days
>
> So none of them had a handful of resumes on their desk from Oracle DBA's
> desperately seeking work....
>
> ;-)
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