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

Not sure why certifications did much there.  Simply using the environment
should bring you up to speed.  I guess a cert, if setup right, might expose
you to areas you normally don't use.....

Drew

-----Original Message-----
From: randall.anthony at cox.net [mailto:randall.anthony at cox.net]
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 11:37 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: Re: [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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