RE: Amt of Training to be considered "up to date"

[Boivin, Patrice J]

Title: Re: Amt of Training to be considered "up to date"

I understand from your response that your employee doesn't send you on any Oracle, UNIX or MS courses.

 

Regards,

Pat.

-----Original Message-----
From: Wolfgang Breitling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 12:39 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: Re: Amt of Training to be considered "up to date"

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I am not joking. I consider staying "up-to-date" a full time process, not
just something you do a few weeks a year. Perusing this newsgroup IS one
part of staying up-to-date.

At 07:49 AM 3/18/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>I am fishing for a standard from an official source -- is there a set
>number of weeks per year of IT training one requires to "stay up to date"
>in our field?  In IT in general?
>
>This is Canadian Income Tax phraseology, maybe the same thing exists in
>the U.S for the IRS (?).
>
>If anyone has an official reference somewhere on how many weeks of IT
>training we need per year to stay up-to-date I would appreciate the links.
>
>(The ideal would be if Oracle has a policy or statement re. this that is
>not necessarily dependent on Oracle University marketing)

Wolfgang Breitling
Centrex Consulting Corporation
http://www.centrexcc.com

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