In some organisations I have worked for you get to be a manager by longevity so you could be a programmer one day and because you stuck it out, the next one your an IT manager for everything IT, Dont laugh one of the guys there now got to be the IT manager just that way. I didnt want to stick it out long enough to see if I could make IT manager
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I am wondering how such people get into positions where they are responsible
for hiring new staff, if they themselves know nothing.
Regards,
Patrice Boivin
Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)
Systems Admin & Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des syst�mes
Technology Services | Services technologiques
Informatics Branch | Direction de l'informatique
Maritimes Region, DFO | R�gion des Maritimes, MPO
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From: Rachel Carmichael [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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and eventually, when they realize they can't find that omniscient
person, they come back to reality
--- Robert Chin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I liked the interviews where they told me about their project,
and
> > I told them how I could contribute - strengths and weaknesses.
> > I'm great at *****. I don't know much about YYY, but I'm
willing
> to
> > learn......We cannot know everything.....
>
> That worked in the "good old days" (pre-2001), not any more, not
by a
> long shot
> These days one is expected to be EXPERT of everything the
employers
> list
> explicitly and implicitly (which seems to be getting longer...)
plus
> this and
> that....
>
> Oracle guru ? you'd wish it's so simple...so Mr Xyz, do you know
SQL
> Server ?
> Sybase ?
> MQ ? Java ? EJB? ASP? Data Warehousing ? data modeling ? Oracle
Apps
> ?
> SAP? Essbase ? Cognos ? Informatica ?............
>
> That's what's so freaky and hedious the job market for hands-on
> techies is.
> You ARE expected to know everything !
>
> Robert Chin
>
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