RE: The number of CCIEs grows faster today

From: Clubb, Steven (sclubb@kpmg.com)
Date: Wed Mar 26 2003 - 14:33:53 GMT-3

Remember that in hard economic times people strive to increase their
marketability by increasing their training and certifications. When times
are good and all you have to do is raise your hand to secure a job, there is
less motivation and necessity to improve their competitive position with
others.

-----Original Message-----
From: MADMAN [mailto:dmadlan@qwest.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 7:32 AM
To: Phong Tran Tien
Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: The number of CCIEs grows faster today

   The program actually started in 93, next to me is CCIE 1040, I took
mine 2 1/2 years after so I would say it is growing more quickly;)

  Dave

Phong Tran Tien wrote:
> Hi group,
>
> I see the truth that the number of CCIEs grows faster today than before. I
took and passed the lab on 19 March, got the number #11285 and I notice that
Mr Ozan Ocal, CCIE #11318, got his number on 22 March. It means that we have
about 33 new CCIEs (11318-11285) in only 3 days (19 to 22 March). Someone
told me that the number of new CCIEs is 400 each month this year, is it
true? If it is true, in this year we will have about new 4,800 CCIEs.
>
> The CCIE program started in 1994 and up to this time, it's about 10 years
long, and the total number of CCIEs in the world is now about 10,300 (the
first CCIE got number 1025). It means that on average the number of CCIEs
grows 1,030 each year (10,300/10). But compare with the number above, 4,800
this year, how do you think? Does this mean that, when the number of CCIEs
increases faster, CCIE certification is easier to get and the value of the
certification decreases?
>
> Tran Tien Phong
> CCIE #11285
>
> 

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