Steve,

Great article!  one other thing you should have included: Don't lie on your resume.

I interviewed a guy last week for a database developer job who had 'performance tuning' and 'DBA' on his resume.  I asked him what a clustered index was and he was clueless.  he also had no idea what an execution plan was or how to backup a database. His idea of a backup was to DTS the data to an access database.

Moral is make sure you know what's on your resume.  I have to wonder what people are thinking when they put stuff like that on their resume.

I'd like to see an article on how to turn down a job gracefully, that's can be a tough thing.

Mark