From: Hansang Bae (hbae@xxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Thu Apr 11 2002 - 00:36:18 GMT-3
At 04:56 PM 4/10/2002 +0000, Bill Mckenzie wrote:
>I would also like to be included in the responses. Even though I'm about 5 mon
ths away from taking the lab, and the numbers seem to be growing exponentially
now, I'm wondering if there will be the jobs out there for all the CCIE's that
there will be.
Certs alone will never get you job (if it does, you won't last very long). Th
is is true for even the CCIE track. It *used* to be more difficult simply beca
use study guides/bootcamps didn't really exist. Not that it's a blow off exam
or anything, but it isn't rocket science either.
We turned away four CCIEs because they didn't have much experience. They kept
saying "during my lab studies...I saw this and that" "during my lab studies...
blah blah blah" There's more to an enterprise network then knowing how to con
figure ridiculous scenerios on 6-10 routers, afterall! :)
I don't mean to be discouraging, but I don't think people should have unrealist
ic expectations of CCIE certification.
In the end, your experience and people skills will help you keep your job. Not
a four (soon to be five) digit number after your name.
That doesn't mean people should stop studying. I find my self *still* reading
atleast two hours a day. One thing about networking...there's a *lot* of mater
ial out there to study! :)
And I still read groupstudy and comp.dcom.sys.cisco/alt.certification.cisco so
I can learn.
hsb (CCIE 8041 - included so I won't get the usual flames about not knowing wha
t it is to be a CCIE)
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