Captain Jack wrote:


> interviews for a DBA with some programming exposure (In my case, I'm looking 
> for someone who can at least read a stored procedure and have some idea of 
> what it does).
> 
> When I'm going through these mounds of paperwork, there are certain problems 


OK, well that sounds way, way too long. Currently there's little or no 
danger of my CV being anywhere near that long. It *was* just under 2 
pages before I started, and now I've taken out all the stuff that's no 
longer relevant given my new target area, it's only just more than a 
single page. Looks quite bare, actually...

> I really just want to know what you've been doing for the last four or five 
> years. If you've been in the industry for 20 years, that's great, but the 
> stuff you were doing then isn't likely to be relevant, and that company is 
> probably out of business anyway. I *absolutely* don't care what you did or 
> learned in school.

Fair enough.

On the other hand, what *have* I done in the list four or five years? 
Sat at my desk surfing the Internet. Well, obviously I don't mention 
that part. ;-)

> On a related note, I don't know what things are like in your neck of the 
> woods, but over here in the middle of the U.S. the big needs seem to be .NET 
> developers (about 30/70 VB to C#), and either MS-SQL or Oracle. If you don't 
> have any experience with the MS tools but you do have a Windows OS, you 
> might try getting the (free) Express editions of those programs and hanging 
> out in some of the VB or C# newsgroups. Those tools aren't awfully hard to 
> pick up, and it may get you in the door, anyway, where you can wow them with 
> your boyish charm and eagerness. :-)

Seems like around here, if you want to do any serious kind of computing, 
you must be in London, end of story. Hence my slight shift in focus...

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