That kind of question is very common.

It depends on what you want for yourself, and what kind of skill you feel you are best at.


with Oracle, just liked other programming courses.
Your skill will make you shine and you will go far... If you feel or you know that are not quite strong in databases, programming etc.
Getting the paper will only take you as far as the interview room or probably few months in a job.
Thereafter skills will be demanded and output will need to be seen. This is the part where the certificate will not help you.

The opposite is also true, if you are good at databases and programming, the certificate will really boost your value as you will have output to show for it .

A masters degree on the other hand has the definite advantage that it can cover up for inadequacies in specific or specialized skill. The paper alone can get you far even without specialized skill e.g.in a certain programming language, database etc

A masters will be good if your line is IT in a management level. This way you even be the boss to the guy who did the oracle course, but its not an automatic way there, firstly you must know your ways (or your politics up there) because the vacancies are few up there .
A masters will be good for those jobs where they are specific about papers e.g Govt and NGOs

I wouldn't recommend the masters if you haven't figured or mapped your way up in IT management in a certain organization and vice versa


questions to ask yourself
are you best in such skill? go for oracle
are you best in getting thing done through people? do the masters
where do you see yourself in five years,
risen the ranks in your organisation? do the masters
resigned and creating oracle apps or oracle consultant: do oracle course
resigned and handling your IT biz? neither oracle nor masters

Hi wilyum, funny you want to change your career to IT. I am an Oracle guy myself and do not want to be in It anymore. Let me explain. Technical skills in IT e.g Oracle will make you earn a good salary for the first five years then you will hit a plateau. You cannot progress beyond being a Database Administrator. So all you will be is a "spanner boy" who looks after databases but cannot progress to management and descision making because of lack of social skills, people skills and financial skills. How many IT people out their become CEOs? My advice? Change your career to finance, sales and marketing e.t.c and learn how to create wealth..unless ofcourse you have no intention of being in management.

S. A. P

@deadpoet, Wot abt SAP,do you wanna know.


for training,go through this.

http://www.wazua.co.ke/f...&t=10875#post284437

Positions are allover Kenya especially if you are certified,but not for SAP Business ONE,hiyo bure kabisa.