[AccessD] OT: What are you lot doing now and then?

Steve,

Drew wrote:
"They wanted a VB/SQL guy, and even though I had a lot of Access experience, I had very little SQL experience. However, what killed my interview, was my 'iffy' SQL abilities.  Not SQL
Server, but the actual query language.  I was asked a lot about joins, etc,and even though I understood the questions and answers, I had a difficult time just 'rattling' things off.  It was because I had become very dependant on Access' query builder."

This was an experience I encountered also. I had one interview where they liked the Access and SQL, but "can you do .Net?".  Nope.  Another interview was just as Drew described.  This solidified my decision to seek certs.  Whereas I knew how to spell .Net, I now (at least), know what a namespace is.

My curriculum included programming with VS, VB, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, XML (which also included sections on upgrading from ASP, etc), SQL administration and programming, and 2003 server administration.

Randy.
> 
> From: Steve Erbach <erbachs at gmail.com>
> Date: 2005/02/21 Mon AM 11:22:02 EST
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> 	<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: What are you lot doing now and then?
> 
> Jim,
> 
> I suppose if ALL other factors were equal, then a prospective employee
> would have an edge if he had a cert. Out of the 21 responses I got,
> only four people had MS certs of any kind. Only one of those -- Randy
> Anthony -- had CURRENT certifications. Amazing.
> 
> Steve Erbach
> 
> 
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 09:07:53 -0500, Jim Dettman
> <jimdettman at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Steve,
> > 
> >   None here.  One of the surprises I got was how little certifications are
> > valued.  Seems like most really don't care about them.
> > 
> >   Just shows you that quality does speak for itself.
> > 
> > Jim.
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