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?