Re: DBA Experience in Brazil?

pagesflames_at_usa.net said...
> Karsten Farrell <kfarrell_at_belgariad.com> wrote in message news:<MPG.18f751db563cc71f989717_at_news.la.sbcglobal.net>...
> > I know an experienced DBA from Romania who is having difficulty finding
> > a job here in Southern California. It's not that he isn't qualified,
> > it's that few employers here speak Romanian. So they can't call any of
> > his former employers to confirm his skills. He told me he wishes he had
> > asked his Romanian employer for a letter of recommendation (or something
> > similar) before he left Romania. Something he could get translated into
> > English and have it notarized as an accurate translation. Then at least
> > he could include that with his resume.
>
> That sounds strange. I do not know situation in Romania (I've been
> there last time 15 years ago), but I think that guy on manager level
> everywhere in the world should know English (more or less), so there
> should be no problem to call from California and ask him about
> opinion. Maybe his English wouldn't be perfect, but should be
> sufficient for conversation.
> English in nowadays world is something like latin in Europe one two
> centuries before, an educated man should know it. :-)
>
> _________________________________________
>
> Dusan Bolek, Ing.
> Oracle team leader
>

Yes, you are right ... the Internet, a very large portion of which is in English, has made English an "international language." However, in Romania (and probably other eastern European countries), it's mostly the younger people who are learning English in school ... and the TV stations broadcast mostly Spanish-speaking programs.

When I was there last summer, I found very few people (other than teenagers) who spoke English ... including one drunk whom I kept trying to tell to get lost ... and a family of gypsies who had their eye on my backpack, who kept shrugging their shoulders and moving around behind me.

I think it's more laziness on the part of the employer, however, in my Romanian DBA friend's case. They have so many qualified resumes that they're unwilling to devote any extra effort. And actually, you can call AT&T operators and get a professional interpreter for almost any language.

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/Karsten
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