Re: Career help - experts please advise

Empoyers might look favorable on training from college extensions. I took a SQL class at UCSD extension and at one job interview I went on and they liked that. Knowing UNIX is good as well because Oracle is ported to UNIX (among other things). Demand for Oracle varies, but in markets with a large high-tech industry, demand will probably also be fairly high.

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cm <cbm_bkr_at_yahoo.com> wrote in article
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> I would like to ask a couple of question about DBA'a and Oracle


> development. I would like to begin a new career in the database field.

> I am currently not employed in the IT field. I love computers, have

> set up many db's in my job and am currently researching avenues into

> doing this fulltime. My question to you is were would one go to get

> training in Oracle that would be viewed as meaningful to employers?

> Would this type of training be enough to get one's foot in the door?

> Are there truly jobs going begging in this field? Do companies

> consider entry-level candidates with only academic experience? If not,

> how would one go about getting that experience (i.e the ol' catch 22)?

> Would Unix training also be important to have coupled with Oracle?

> 

> Thanks in advance,

> chris

>