Re: How Is The Job Market for Oracle DBA's?

Understood.

John

On Sun, 07 Apr 2002 22:16:32 GMT, "RSH" <RSH_Oracle_at_worldnet.att.net> wrote:

>And, yes, the DBA market is flooded with inexperienced, underqualified
>labor, with impressive but often quite false resumes.
>
>Have fun.
>
>RSH.
>"John W." <tincanman9_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:3cb075d7.3963078_at_netnews.worldnet.att.net...
>> Was working at a large telecom. They had been in trouble for a long
>> time. Since the time I had been there it was endless layoffs,
>> downsizings, etc...
>>
>> Anyway they came in and chopped out 20% of the employees. Cost
>> reduction. The separation package as they call it was not bad but the
>> job market sucks. Bad as it was there (the place was full of H1B's -
>> employees were a minority, you would think you were in India) it was
>> still a paying job. The day before I went off payroll there was an
>> email from my director saying there now going to offshore projects to
>> get costs lower as there is pressure from the business to control
>> costs.
>>
>> The location of course was India. Try this for rates and it will make
>> your hair stand up. The Indian consulting company gets $15/hour for
>> each body, the person (programmer, etc...) gets.....get ready (it
>> shocked me) $3/HOUR! How are people here ever going to compete with
>> that? IT in this country is doomed.
>>
>> I have 15 years of experience (I am old ) in a variety of
>> technologies. MVS, UNIX, NT, programming (C, C++, Cobol & some Java)
>> database administration (Oracle, DB2, IMS), system administration,
>> networking, architecture... In my last position I was a systems
>> infrastructure manager.
>>
>> Anyway I have sent out close to 300 resumes already and have only
>> gotten a handful of responses. Its really tight. The H1B's have really
>> tightened up the job market. I have been in this field for 15 years
>> and have never ever seen it like this. Usually it might take you a
>> month to find a job but I have been at it for 3 already. Starting to
>> get scared...
>>
>> I am contemplating getting back into Oracle DBA work. I did it for a
>> number of years and was offered an "opportunity". Got out of it. As
>> part of severance package I got money for training (anything I want)
>> that will cover taking ALL the current Oracle DBA training?
>>
>> How is the job market for Oracle DBA's? Is it tight?
>>
>> Reason I am asking is that some parts of the tech field are flooded
>> with cheap labor. Are Oracle DBA's one of them?
>>
>> I would like to hear some opinions.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> John
>
Received on Sun Apr 07 2002 - 18:18:59 CDT