[thelist] a weird question

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> From: Jay Greenspan <jay at trans-city.com>
[...] 
> And one other thing, before you start saying you can call yourself a
> sysadmin, dba, etc., you should have a really good idea of what these people
> do. Take a look at the job boards and see what kind of skills it takes to
> land a 90k job as a sysadmin or dba.

+1 on that...

i've seen a crapload of resumes (and CVs, portfolios, etc) come 
through lately from people who claim to have experience in, or be 
experts at, content-management systems, usability, interface 
design, coding, etc...

invariably a few questions later it's clear that the person is 
clueless...

make sure that before you call yourself a sysadmin or a dba, that 
you've actually done the job and know what it entails...  i keep 
resumes on file, but when somebody says that he/she is an HTML 
expert (for instance), but doesn't even know about the W3C, 
valdiation, or what DTD to use, that resume goes to the circular 
file...  i know that i'm just echoing jay's paragraph above, but from 
the employer's perspective, that will kill your chances of 
landing a gig hands-down...