Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!drn.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!postnews.google.com!o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "Pratap" Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Career Advise - Database Management Date: 14 Sep 2005 03:53:31 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 12 Message-ID: <1126695211.482075.7070@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> References: <1126638273.916921.245530@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 169.71.50.37 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1126695222 6853 127.0.0.1 (14 Sep 2005 10:53:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:53:42 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=169.71.50.37; posting-account=ggTznQ0AAAC6zIXErnOYTTa0egexTTzl Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.oracle.server:251474 Here is my opinion - Doing certification like OCP atleast gives you a target and motivation to read the manuals. So you may learn lots of things in theory atleast. But certifications don't guarantee a job. But tell you what, many software consultancy companies are motivating their employees to get certified. They use it as a marketing tool, telling their prospective customers that the have xx number of certified people. Though in my personal opinion getting a certification does not gurantee expertise in that area. But it does not harm you also!