True experts probably don't discuss what it means to be an expert.
Unless they are experts in expert qualification, of course.
stephen booth wrote:
>On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 16:17:25 -0600, Duret, Kathy
><kduret_at_starkinvestments.com> wrote:
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>>Amen! I have know many Oracle "experts" with really very little knowledge.
>>
>>When someone calls themselves an "expert" I usually find myself recycling
>>their resume and looking for another candidate. I usually find these people
>>are experts at BS and not Oracle at all.
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>A big problem I've had is others (especially managers and recruitment
>consultants) calling me an expert and generally bigging up my skills
>when talking to others. There's been several occsions that I've been
>to a job interview and found that the recruitment consultant has been
>creative with my resume, "Some experience" becomes "Extensive
>experience". What's really bad is that I'm sure that this has lost me
>some jobs because they've called me in expecting someone who can patch
>a 500 node RAC cluster with zero downtime just by looking at it (OK,
>slight exageration) and instead they get me. I could probaby do the
>job they originally advertised but because they had had their
>expectations built up to an unrealistic level it turns them against
>me.
>
>The more I find out the more I realise that there's more to learn and
>that a lot of what I thought was true turns out to be myth.
>
>Stephen
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