This was indeed a good article, but I think many hiring managers have wants that are not well targeted. There are job descriptions out there asking candidates to have five years of SSIS experience. Unless you were beta testing 2005 in the Microsoft Labs, thats impossible.

I do think that the top tier DBA skillsets are not offering much seperation between .NET, Web development, security and SQL Skills, so I think I have had my best luck where I can show myself as a Microsoft engineer who has focused on SQL development and administration. Other than that, if your system is setup and managed properly, the DBA mostly can focus on occasional performance tuning, data integrity, and reporting reqs.

Candidates will say they know anything to get hired. I feel like the best measure of someone's IT skills is how they handle it when they DONT know something.