Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!drn.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!216.168.1.162.MISMATCH!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-06!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: DA Morgan Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Career Advise - Database Management Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 12:41:01 -0700 Organization: Ye 'Ol Disorganized NNTPCache groupie Message-ID: <1127590799.286096@yasure> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1126638273.916921.245530@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1126695211.482075.7070@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <1126711827.545598@yasure> <1126755534.274708@yasure> <1126770402.682519.241640@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <1127157236.002912.73970@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1127201731.956760.72880@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <1127225633.493746.143040@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <433037df$0$11728$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au> <1127238892.295441.256270@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1127242105.060141.292750@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <1127265230.623991.29480@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1127265230.623991.29480@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cache-Post-Path: yasure!unknown@oracle.advtechserv.com X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b5 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 40 Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.oracle.server:252165 hpuxrac wrote: > David what you and Nuno are both apparently missing is the fact for > many job postings an OCP is now listed as a pre-requisite to HR. Lets put that to a test. date 24-Sep-2005 http://www.dice.com Search for jobs using the criterion "PL/SQL" 2,892 matching jobs Search these results using the criterion "OCP" 7 matching jobs Then do the math 7/2892 = 0.24% Maybe in your world it is worth spending thousands of dollars for a shot at 0.24% of the available jobs: Not in mine. Well maybe it is just the criterion "PL/SQL" so lets try "Oracle DBA" 1,487 matching jobs Search these results using the criterion "OCP" 19 matching jobs Then do the math 19/1487 = 1.28% Not exactly a ringing endorsement for the HR department's clamoring for those OCP grads. If you have evidence to the contrary please share it with us. -- Daniel A. Morgan http://www.psoug.org damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)