Now a days i receive lot of career queries from people looking for Job in Oracle field in my mail box. Perhaps I am getting old ... :(
Anyway.. here are my consolidated thoughts on this topic.
Readers are encouraged to put their own thoughts in comments below
Hi Abhi,
I am not sure if I am qualified to answer your career queries. As it has been some time since i did my own job search.
I will try to consolidate what i feel and i hope it would be helpful to you.
- For, say every 20 developers that are hired there is only 1 DBA that is required
- Normally out of these 20 developers, manager chooses one to ALSO take care of DBA job for that particular project.
- Teaching DBA is no substitute for working in a high pressure production environment.
My suggestion :
1) Jump in IT job as developer (better chance 20:1 right !!! ) . Become that 1 person who also takes care of DB. and carve a niche for your work.
2) A lot of companies are doing recruitment including Capgemini. Unfortunately the information of walkins is available only at the last moment. Sometime back there was requirement in Chennai. Bangalore and Hyderabad are also Hot places for Walkins. (Pune walkin are there but the place has 4-5 it parks and they are all on very different corners of the city very hard to keep track of whats going on where).
3) One final para of wisdom:
what a lovely grain of sand you are
too bad you are lying on a beach.
(This becomes more true for people who are in India)
You may be surprised to know that during my job search days I trained myself for Java. Gave interview for Java and still I have no project where i worked in Java. Somehow life gave me options and I just went on with the flow. It seems strange that today Oracle owns Java and somehow my past passion for Java will somehow blossom in future times with OAF and ADF and Jdeveloper which are all closely related to Java development.
But who could have predicted that Oracle would buy Sun 10 years back. So go with the flow or go against or whatever ..just do not fail to enjoy the ride.
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Recently i met one more disilusioned youth and this is what i mentioned to him.
ReplyDeleteHope other people also take clue. and yes I BELIEVE in RASHMI BANSAL.
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Rahul
Hope you wont mind saying you upfront what i feel.
Your resume needs to be longer and much much better please do not hold back what makes you special. . Try to search on net how other people do it, beef it up.
At present your resume has no character and is like any other Ram, Shyam or Mary who has come out of college recently. and wont even go past the ROBOTS that screen your resume among 1000s others.
Pls do not feel down.Try to search for what you bring to the employer that is unique in you. You have great potential and you will soon find you employed someplace good. i am Sure of that.
So work hard get things right, create your niche and start your career in right direction.
PS : Try to go through all posts of Rashmi Bansal at her blog. SHE IS F*K*G awesome.
This is the link. http://youthcurry.blogspot.com/
Thanks
Sunil Choudhary
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