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Dear Gurus,
It is very interesting to read all the different responses to this posting. I thought that I should add some of my observations during the past few months of job hunting.
I am a trained accountant and had about 3 years of Oracle Financials
(Functional) experience both as an accountant and as a consultant. 2 years
ago, I had to deviate from Oracle to work in the Dubai Internet City in
finance/web consultancy. The market conditions in Dubai wasn't as conducive
as I thought and therefore I started to pursue the OCP 8i DBA track on my
own in my free time. Almost a year later, I managed to past all the 5
papers for OCP 8i DBA in Nov 01 and had to move to the UK. I thought that
with the OCP plus Oracle apps experience, I should have no problem securing
a job in that arena.
However, I don't even get past recruitment agents in the UK bec of lack of DBA experience. Most of the pre-requisites includes > 2 years of experience of pperating systems and even Oracle 7 upwards. Even "Junior Oracle DBA" roles require at least 9 months of commercial experience! To me, its the same old question: "how can any one get any commercial experience at all?"
As if that isn't bad enough, I don't even get a lot of interests for my applications for Oracle Financials functional positions because I haven't got any experience in the latest (R11.x.x.x - yes that precise level of experience) version even though I have implemented R11 albeit nearly 2 years ago.
To me, accounting is accounting. Not matter how many new features you have, as an accountant, I still need the core functionalities! It must either be the bad state of the economy or that there must be something wrong in the recruitment process. I would like to think that it is the former.
As a result, I have become somewhat disappointed and have changed my job hunting focus. Luckily for me, I have managed to land myself on a Business Analyst role with a company that is using Oracle DBs. I will of course be finding ways to volunteer to use my, at best theoretical, knowledge in Oracle 8i.
My advice: don't give up easily but be prepared to have to go the round-about way.
Cheers
Pete
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