The Voice of the DBA Job Specialization - Boon or Bane?

MEVIOtoday

May 28, 2008 Job Specialization - Boon or Bane?

An article I recently read suggested that a reason employers are having a difficult time finding qualified IT employees might be the result of the narrow focus of the employer's own requirements. This makes sense. As the number of different technologies and industries in which we specialize grows, it is more and more difficult for us workers to maintain a wide range of skills with requisite depth. If you check job descriptions these days, it's not surprising to find something like: "Required skills: 5+ years of database administration on Sybase, in a data warehousing environment, with .NET experience, Web Sphere experience, in the pharmaceutical industry." On top of that, you would typically see a long list of "experience with X a big plus."

Read the rest of Job Specialization - Boon or Bane? at SQLServerCentral.com