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This is a difficult question that I've had to face more than I would have
liked in the past 2 years. The way to do it is to mark your prices down and
say that comparing bang for the buck, you've got a bigger bang... and maybe
they can squeeze out a better buck... and maybe they can't... but at least
you can compete with people with little or no experience... OH, and all
those phone calls you get from recruiters... return them all... every last
one of them... and make friends with them... tell them you're an expensive
commodity, but if they hear of anything you're always interested in looking
around... because it is much better to leave on your own terms and go job to
job than to let the market forces do their bit and be sitting between jobs
for weeks and months, then settling for money you'd prefer not to settle
for...
HTH,
Bambi.
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Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 11:40 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
That only works up to the point where they are willing to pay. It's sad, but you can STILL get a job with the OCP letters after your name, regardless of what you can or can't do. The idea is that they are paying you bottom line because you have no experience... but being able to pass a test means that you are trainable.
If you can't get through the screeners that say... oh, you have X amount of qualifications... that prices you out of our range in these hard times, how can you market? Honestly, this is more than just rhetoric... HOW can you market yourself when you look bad to the bottom line?
April Wells
Oracle DBA/Oracle Apps DBA
Corporate Systems
Amarillo Texas
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Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 11:14 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Mladen,
> Hard times present problems because people do > not want to pay for a competent DBA but frequently hire a shaman or a > witch doctor who "improves" on the system based on snake oil type > techniques. If I cannot get more money then some bozo after a
If you know you're better than the bozo and that you can give people more value for their money then I think this is a marketing problem more than anything else. It's up to you to prove to the buyer (or your boss) that you
can do the work better. Quantify your expected results. Chapter 4 has an excellent discussion on this.
Gudmundur
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