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Working my way through the SQL tutorials at w3schools.com. I'm mildly encouraged that I seem to know about... 60-70% of the content already, at least so far as writing select statements goes. I'm not into the really complex database administration exercises yet.
Place #1 has not gotten back to me, but I didn't have high hopes there to begin with. Place #2 emailed me back for a third interview, which will be on Monday. Their form letter setting it up included an injunction to 'dress professionally,' which makes me wonder what kind of candidate they normally get at their in-person interviews. Yesterday I got an email from a recruiter wanting to submit my resume to a Place #3 (again, someplace that wants more SQL experience than I have, so I said yes go ahead, but I'm not expecting even a phone interview there) and this morning I got an email asking to set up a phone interview at Place #4 next week.
I'm not going to send out my next batch of resumes until I've finished the SQL tutorials and (hopefully) passed the certification test on the tutorial website (though I have to check and see if they charge for that; if they do, I will probably skip it.) Either way, I want to be able to add SQL to my skills on the resume without feeling that I'm fudging it. At the rate I've been going, I think I can finish it over the weekend, next week for sure. I might try to learn Python next, since a lot of places seem to be looking for that, though I expect that will be a lot harder to pick up since I'll be starting from scratch.
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Place #1 has not gotten back to me, but I didn't have high hopes there to begin with. Place #2 emailed me back for a third interview, which will be on Monday. Their form letter setting it up included an injunction to 'dress professionally,' which makes me wonder what kind of candidate they normally get at their in-person interviews. Yesterday I got an email from a recruiter wanting to submit my resume to a Place #3 (again, someplace that wants more SQL experience than I have, so I said yes go ahead, but I'm not expecting even a phone interview there) and this morning I got an email asking to set up a phone interview at Place #4 next week.
I'm not going to send out my next batch of resumes until I've finished the SQL tutorials and (hopefully) passed the certification test on the tutorial website (though I have to check and see if they charge for that; if they do, I will probably skip it.) Either way, I want to be able to add SQL to my skills on the resume without feeling that I'm fudging it. At the rate I've been going, I think I can finish it over the weekend, next week for sure. I might try to learn Python next, since a lot of places seem to be looking for that, though I expect that will be a lot harder to pick up since I'll be starting from scratch.
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