From: Howard C. Berkowitz (hcb@gettcomm.com)
Date: Sat Sep 11 2004 - 16:36:25 GMT-3
At 9:11 AM -0400 9/11/04, Scott Morris wrote:
>Considering that many employers won't even look at a resume these days if
>you do not have a college degree of some sort on there, I would think that
>should be a primary goal to complete.
>
>Industry membership is nice. Notoriety certainly helps, but all it takes is
>one hard-nosed HR person to quash the hiring of the most experiences person
>by not being able to check off a required box of "college degree" or
>something like that.
True enough. But, Scott, perhaps I didn't make my point clear. I am
not arguing for or against degrees or certifications. I was arguing
about two specific points:
1. That Cisco deliberately designs the CCIE to exclude people
2. That the CCIE study process makes you learn "everything about a
technology or protocol."
The second point, to me, is more important. Effective Cisco studies
teach how to use Cisco implementations. They teach very little about
the aspects of the technology that Cisco might not have implemented,
or about the architecture and design decisions that went into
developing the protocol or technology.
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