Any Cisco certs out there?

[Kakdiesel]

Wireless technology = Devil's work

 

[Indy]

Wireless technology = Devil's work

It bought me 16 national level winning show cars, not to mention 6 new Bimmers in the last 3 years, so selling my soul was worth it

 

[Kakdiesel]

i know im joking bro..but i hate cars too. buy a hybrid. you're grandkids will thank you. Right after they thank you for their 4 oz. brain and third eyeball

 

[Ish]

Or kill two birds with one stone and do both.

I would look into VOIP moreso than WLAN now.

 

[Lestat]

certs are not the way to go in my opinion. I'm an IT professional with 5 years of experience at a fortune 500 (wireless company even). The certs are ok, don't hurt, but won't make a candidate hireable alone. Your work in a related field helps, but a good thing to do would try to get some IT support job in the network operations center of a large company. You don't need much experience at all to start and you can really learn a lot hands on that way which ends up being much more enticing to prospective employers.

 

[Indy]

certs are not the way to go in my opinion. I'm an IT professional with 5 years of experience at a fortune 500 (wireless company even). The certs are ok, don't hurt, but won't make a candidate hireable alone. Your work in a related field helps, but a good thing to do would try to get some IT support job in the network operations center of a large company. You don't need much experience at all to start and you can really learn a lot hands on that way which ends up being much more enticing to prospective employers.

True to a point, but the certs talk. I am called in for many of these Fortune 500 companies to do the tech interviews on their candidates. No paper, no talk is what many companies say. I have spoke to many great candidates without certs, good time on the job, but today is the day of the cert, they want to see the discipline. You can arge with me, but I have been doing it 3 times longer than you and was with Cisco during it's growing stages of taking over the earth. I have worked with auto repair businesses, to local governements, to the Pentagon and Home Land Security. I have truely seen every aspect of the IT busines, have spoke on it myself. Having dinner with John Chambers and Bill Gates before presenting to Chief of Homeland Security and Mayor Guliani post 9/11 was a highlight in my career, and being chosen for that, told me I was on top of my game.