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Interviewing
for DBAs and Developers
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To get the job you want starts
with understanding the skills you will need to acquire and
getting them through training both on and off the job.
But there are a lot of people with the technical skills
that still struggle to find the right opportunities, apply
for them, get the interview invitations, and master the
soft-skills required to land the job.
This PSOUG workshop is will give you the opportunity to
brush up on your skills, preparatory, interview,, and
whiteboard, in a non-threatening environment.
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Syllabus
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| 5:45-6:00pm |
Introductions |
Join us
for coffee before class begins.
To attend a workshop you must register at least
one day in advance. |
| 6:00-7:00pm |
Discussion
1 |
The
Preparation
Your resume, finding information about the company visiting the workplace prior to the
interview. How to dress for the interview who will be interviewing you and why it matters Confirming the interview. |
| 7:30-8:00pm |
Discussion
2 |
The
Interview
The real goal of the interview. Various types of
interview types and environments, Should you drink the company
kool-aid? Body language and demeanor, Questions you can't avoid and answers you need to have
prepared, Taking control of the interview, When to shut up, How to know when the interview is over, Setting up the next step, Important tasks for the day after the interview. |
| 8:00-9:00pm |
Discussion
3 |
The
Follow-Up
The Follow-up, Interview role playing, Objective self-critique, Getting better at the game. |
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Instructors |
Jack Cline is the chairman of the Puget Sound Oracle Users Group and has done Oracle contract work in the Puget Sound area for the past 11 years including engagements at Boeing, Bank of America, King County, the City of Seattle, Puget Sound Energy, and the Seattle-King Country Department of Health. He is a frequent guest lecturer at the University of Washington's Oracle Certification Program.
Dan Morgan is an Oracle Ace Director, a
10g and 11g Beta tester for Oracle, and the instructor of the
Oracle program at the University of Washington since its
inception in 1999. He began his IT career in 1969 with an IBM
370/145, punch cards, and Fortran IV, and though he will
vigorously deny it, wrote COBOL for a decade before moving into
Oracle about when version 6 hit the market.
In addition to Dan's work at the university he is the Education
Chair of the Puget Sound Oracle Users Group, a member of UKOUG,
and a member of the British-American Chamber of Commerce in
Seattle. He is also a frequent lecturer at training events and
at conferences and has presented at Oracle OpenWorld on RAC
(2005), at Seattle OracleDay (2004-2007), at numerous government
and corporate training events including Apple Computer, Argonne
National Laboratory, Boeing Commercial Airplane Group, Dow Jones
& Company, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, NASA,
T-Mobile, US Navy at Pearl Harbor, and Weyerhaeuser to name but
a few and presented on Streams and Change Data Capture at UKOUG
in 2006.
Dan Morgan is the Morgan behind the "Morgan's Library"
website that contains the many demos he has created for
his University of Washington classes as well as for his frequent
lectures. He is the former publisher of MacTech Journal, has
presented Oracle technical lectures in the US, Canada, Great
Britain, and Japan. Morgan is also the author of this course.
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