Doesn't every DBA start as a junior DBA?  I see DBA's as being a senior level IT postition though, so a senior developer or admin might become a junior DBA.  I doubt that I would ever hire somebody straight out of school, or new to IT, as a DBA.  I want somebody with some serious battle-scars to watch over our data.

There are some jobs that just need a wide range of experience to be effective at and DBA and Data Architect are some of them.  A senior DBA is a candidate to become a junior Data Architect etc...  DBA is not an entry level job in my book.

Yeah, I suppose your're right.  I don't recall a DBA position with "junior" in the title anywhere.

Which goes back to my original point... since there are no 'Junior DBA' jobs, the hoards of junior DBA's are going to inflate their resume's and try to squirm through the interview process to try to get a "Senior DBA' job.

The result for the interviwer is going to be a lot of people who look good on paper, that think that a varchar is a char that was left on the grill for too long.

However, from the interviewee's perspective, what choice do you have? You have to get a job somehow, and you don't want to abandon the education you just worked so hard to get.

No easy answer, is there?  

"a varchar is a char that was left on the grill for too long"

I love it!