Re: Career help - experts please advise

First question: how much money do you have to spend? Oracle training (like many other technical courses) isn't cheap. Go to Oracle's web site (http://education.oracle.com) and investigate the options for training. They have two basic routes (for developers): OCP (Oracle Certified Professional) and the Masters program. One benefit I've found with the Masters program is that they have more "tracks" to follow (based on certain job roles). For instance, the OCP only has 2 tracks: Application Developer and DBA. But, the Masters program has training programs based on job roles, like "Oracle Applications Implementation Team Member", "Webmaster", "Web Application Developer", etc. Supposedly, the Masters program "preps" you for the OCP exams.

Secondly, I don't think having UNIX experience is altogether vitally important. UNIX is used by many corporations (big and small), but so is WindowsNT. I would concentrate on getting to know Oracle better and decide what type of future you'd like with the product (developer or DBA). Do you know any programming languages (C++) and/or environments (PowerBuilder, Visual Basic)?

Hope this helps! E-mail me if you'd like!

Dave Morse
dmorse_at_iquest.net
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cm wrote in message <35bd164e.2394044_at_news.atl.bellsouth.net>...
>I would like to ask a couple of question about DBA'a and Oracle
>development. I would like to begin a new career in the database field.
>I am currently not employed in the IT field. I love computers, have
>set up many db's in my job and am currently researching avenues into
>doing this fulltime. My question to you is were would one go to get
>training in Oracle that would be viewed as meaningful to employers?
>Would this type of training be enough to get one's foot in the door?
>Are there truly jobs going begging in this field? Do companies
>consider entry-level candidates with only academic experience? If not,
>how would one go about getting that experience (i.e the ol' catch 22)?
>Would Unix training also be important to have coupled with Oracle?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>chris
Received on Tue Jul 28 1998 - 14:18:03 CDT