Re: Is Oracle DBA cerificate useless ?!!!!

Try "Oracle" and "Certification", might come up with a bit more but that is not really my point. I will retract the term "require and prefer", I should have said "like". I saw a few job postings today in fact that said something like "Oracle certification(s) are a plus.". Don't get me wrong, most folks won't get cert and then get job but take a few of my buddies that are engineers. These types are always fooling around with things like Oracle on their own. I have told a few of them that their first job would most likely come working primarily as an engineer and then get a chance to show their stuff as DBA. From there they could move on to bigger and better things. The idea that every Oracle database is being manned by an experienced DBA is bologna. There are plenty of opportunities for less experienced individuals out their. However they are unlikely to land that first job by applying for an Oracle DBA position. They will need to be more creative than that.

"Daniel A. Morgan" <Daniel.Morgan_at_attws.com> wrote in message news:3B26978D.E012ED6C_at_attws.com...
> Ethan Post wrote:
>
> > While it is true 99% of the people posting on this list could care less
 if
> > you got your OCP or not when you walk in the door for a job, it is not
 true
> > that it is worthless. Go to the job boards and you will see that many
 of
> > the jobs require or prefer OCP's.
>
> An excellent idea and I decided to test it out.
> I went to dice.com.
> I chose Job Search, Seattle, All telephone area codes.
> I put in the search criteria ORACLE.
> There are 175 potential jobs.
>
> I put in the search criteria OCP.
> There was one hit.
> And in that single hit it listed it as "desirable" not mandatory.
>
> So in a search of the Seattle area: 1 out of 175.
> Searched San Francisco Bay area: 4 out of 415.
> Searched Denver area: 0 out of 190.
> Searched Boston area: 1 out of 647.
>
> So your definition of "many" is .... ? <g>
>
> The prosecution rests.
>
> Daniel A. Morgan
>
Received on Tue Jun 12 2001 - 23:41:19 CDT