MrsGorilla said:
Well, hopefully with your VB/VBA with your Access stuff plus your schooling (that is what you are going to school for, isnt it?) you'll have more than the minimum requirements for the position. If they are going to train you then I'm sure that you'll have no problems.
As far as the interview process goes, my first techie job out of school was for a very small company (about 30-40 people) and I wasn't even hired to do the techie stuff. It was a few years ago after the downfall of the airlines and the telecommunications companies and Williams and WorldCom here in Tulsa had just laid off a whole slew of employees. Needless to say, the market was flooded with unemployed IT people here for a while. One job I applied for had over 900 applicants for a single position so I didn't have a chance. I got that job and after about a month they found out I had my B.S. in Computer Science and about 2 weeks after that they slid me into that position because they weren't happy with who they had. So I didn't have to do a technical interview for that one. When I interviewed for my current job, I did have to answer questions about my previous experience and what kinds of things I had done, what kinds of systems I had worked on, etc. My first job in here though (I've already moved to a more programming related job) was a desktop support-type position though so I had to answer more questions about that type of stuff than anything. If I were you I would just try to be as prepared as I could be, knowing that they may test your logic and your programming knowledge. I would be prepared to answer some questions about stuff you've already done and what kinds of problems you've solved with your programming skills in the past. Hope this helps, but I don't know if it will.
Yes, I'm going to school to be a DBA, but I see this is a foot in the door. Getting my foot in the door should help me progress to the database department. Currently, it is a small department and people rarely leave, but I can keep my fingers crossed.
Yes, I'm currently reviewing over my Intro to programming notes. Stuff like 'What kind of error is the hardest to detect', Logicial. That is becuase you don't always know it is an error until the program doesn't give you the info you were expecting.
Stuff like the Software development cycle: Planning, Coding, testing and debugging. Also, knowing what an object is, properties and methods are.
I think if I can show I do have the basics down for programming, I should get my foot in the door.
They were also wanting student knowledge of the following:
OS environment in a Mainframe, Midrange and or PC/LAN environment
database concepts in a Mainframe environment
telecommmunication and networking concepts
I have the database down pat, I'm not sure about the OS and telecommunications. I know that Unix is a Mainframe OS. That is about it.
I'm going to study that this weekend.
I'm really amped about this, and I hope my energy will also help me there.
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