pls give me some advice to fide a job.....

[wchuang]

Hi, all:
i am a certified Oracle 8 DBA but still have lots of difficulties to get a job. Can anybody give me some advice about what other computer skills (such as Linix ??) should i learn and have experience with in order to find a job soon......?

Thanks

wayne

[marist89]

Sure, I'll give you some help. First, you need to learn to read so you can put your posts in the right forum...

[marist89]

Here's some advice:
Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically.
Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

[pando]

hey not just being certified would get you a job

[stecal]

At the risk of taking another spear from pando today, let me offer this observation:

You claim to be a certified Oracle DBA and have no idea about other computer skills you need? How did you become certified? Brain dump or cheat sheet? Did you really learn anything? Chapter 1 of most DBA books talk about the day to day duties/activities of a DBA. Didn't the exam questions give you a hint about needing to know something about UNIX? Or NT?

You're certified. Good for you. Now go do some reading on your own (books, other Oracle-related web sites, Oracle magazine, etc.) and learn something about what a decent Oracle DBA would know when interviewing for a job. For example, do you need to be a UNIX sys admin? No, but you surely need to have quite a few of those skills (set up accounts, change environment variables, change permissions, how to install software, how to write a shell script, how to navigate the UFS, etc.).

[Shestakov]

I never been certified as Oracle DBA.
And please don't cry "i'm certified Oracle DBA" on an each coner.
This is'n pletty good practice in each situation.

About ur computer skills:
dba have (not must) to know:
-- hadrware (common system architecture, differense between for example
scsii adb ide ..., types of raids ..., type of buses ... what difference between SMP an MPP...)
-- network architecture (a lot of topics ...)
-- os (filesystems, process managment, user accounts, enviroment,
shell scripting, memory structure, kernel parameters ...+ ...)
-- no less then one programing language (except sql/plsql)
-- OPTION web application servers (no less then "in common")
and HOW IT CAN WOKS TOGETHER and with DB.

[pando]

Originally posted by stecal
At the risk of taking another spear from pando today, let me offer this observation:

nah just that many people think with certs they can get a job.... probably if we were in late 90's IT boom but nowdays even experienced and skilled people... hard hard time!

[pravin]

pando u are absolutely right.

It is hard time now a days to get a job.

[yoda]

"No one wants advice -- only corroboration."
-John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent