Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.7585
EAN: 9780972751315
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0972751319
Label: Rampant Techpress
Languages: Array
Manufacturer: Rampant Techpress
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: 2003-08-01
Publisher: Rampant Techpress
Studio: Rampant Techpress

Using Oracle job interview questions that are not available to the general public, with this book the IT manager will be able to quickly assess the technical ability of any Oracle job candidate. Listed are the personality characteristics of successful Oracle professionals and how to identify candidates with the right demeanor as well as a checklist of background characteristics that indicate a suitable Oracle job candidate. Also provided are methods for evaluating academic and work history and oral interview questions for Oracle DBAs, developers, and Oracle analysts. Techniques for quickly scanning resumes for pertinent information are also given.

Customer Rating:
Summary: A Great Guide
Comment: To find a good candidate and hire that person does take some homework for the person doing the hiring. You have to weed out the people who do not qualify immediately. This book gives you that help.

The book is a great guide in what to look for in and how to be a Oracle professional. Along with guidance on education, professional experience, personal appearance, the book provide sample questions that all Oracle DBAs should know. The candidate can use the questions as a review. The employer can use the questions as a guide to other questions or could use the questions straight from the book. Of course the employer should be aware that the candidate might have also read the book.

Any employer looking for a quality candidate should buy this book.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Valuable Background Tips
Comment: I used this book as a guide when hiring a co-worker and it saved me considerable labour. I would disregard the other reviews that stuff this book because it mentions that Oracle programmers need college degrees and a sense of proper professional attire. If you work in a professional environment, this is the book that explains how-to find fellow professionals.

The technical questions are good but my favorite part is the personal accessment section. Too many Oracle people think that Oracle is just another job, and this short book sets the record straight.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Helpful tool for the IT manager
Comment: This book is useful for an IT manager with limited Oracle experience. Looking forward to seeing an updated version!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: A Stern Tonic
Comment: [...]
These are not guys prone to asking hypotheticals, or encouraging thought experiments. They wear white shirts. They have answers. You'd better know these answers, and only these, because they've been written down in this little book.

No subtle distinctions, variations of experience, or questions of cognitive talent will clutter their decision processes at hiring time. These are not distractible people.

They cover a lot of ground here. Who makes a great Oracle person? Electrical Engineers are perfect candidates -- but watch out for Education majors (they're suspect). (FYI, this reviewer is an E.E. -- glad to know I'm okay.) What personality type is best? Try to get one with an "'Anal' personality,"

"after Sigmund Freud's theory of anal-retentive personalities" (page 34).

I bet these guys are great fun. Pleasant to work with (assuming you've memorized the entire content of your site's init.ora, and can recite it verbatim).

I must heartily disagree with one of the critics of this book. It is not wide and shallow. Rather it is narrow and subterranean. It expects encyclopedic knowledge of Oracle trivia -- the minor and/or once-in-a-career kind of stuff.

Most answers it asks for are the kind slovenly architects and developers refer to in the documentation, when, if ever, they are pertinent, or whenever they've been forgotten in the rush of ten dozen other tasks, or after the certification test is done with. You'll only be getting cream with this book, the kind of professionals who read and reread from Rampant's Oracle In-Focus series, especially to the kids before bed each and every night.

Heaven help you.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Give you some ideas on DBA job interviews
Comment: I bought this book and went through it in less than 2 hours. I think the book is worth to read. It certainly gives you some ideas on how the DBA job interview is conducted. I did like it. I believe the book can help junior DBAs get prepared for a job interview.
For the reviewers who think the book can help hire the wrong person, I would say that is true. But if you are not a qualified DBA and you study this book to get a job, sooner or later your lies will catch up with you and you will be on the road again looking for another job.

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