From: Adam Elghafri (ccie.adam@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Nov 24 2008 - 20:09:55 ARST
Nasim wrote:
> As you said honestly that you have zero experience. My question why are you
> looking for decent salary job (which you are saying 20k plus AED).
when i said a decent job ... this does not implay a decent salary job nor
20k+
I didnt get replies to my emails and online applications.. i didnt get
emails from recruitment website like monstergulf or bayt...
all what i need now is to get interviewed...!!!
On 11/24/08, Muhammad Nasim <muhammad.nasim@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Adam I read your email.
>
> As you said honestly that you have zero experience. My question why are you
> looking for decent salary job (which you are saying 20k plus AED).
>
>
> Try to find decent job in terms of learning experience not money.
>
> I hp
>
> 2008/11/23 Fahad Khan <fahad.khan@gmail.com>
>
>> First of all I congratulate you on your success and wish you all the best
>> ahead in your future. MashAllah great Job.
>> But your next goal should be to get rid of the the bottle neck (zero years
>> exp), and must not be the 2nd CCIE :).
>>
>> Remember, Hardware interfacing, troubleshooting, implementation,
>> configuration and design modification while deployment, these are very
>> very
>> important things in real life even more than certifications. There are
>> many
>> things which you may not find in the book and they are beyond any bookish
>> knowledge. Things defined in the books are ideal. But you get the real
>> taste
>> of technology when you deploy, integrate and troubleshoot a technology
>> (any
>> box) with the zero or minimum downtime.
>>
>> I think you should go for the diversified knowledge like integration of
>> juniper, 3Com, foundry etc technologies (Routing, switching, security,
>> wireless etc ) with Cisco, that will definitely let you feel more
>> confident.
>>
>> Try getting a job at vendor or any Service provider's end for feeling the
>> real pain of technologies.
>>
>> Remember, There is not any short cut of experience and exposure.
>>
>> I wish you all the very best in life.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 7:51 PM, Adam Elghafri <ccie.adam@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi group..
>> > here is my success story as Ive promised u
>> >
>> > Ive graduated as an electrical engineer in summer 2007 yes.. I am a
>> fresh
>> > graduate with no work experience..
>> > During university, I have completed CCNA and several 400 level courses
>> in
>> > Telecom and networking after graduation, i thought this is not enough,
>> so
>> > I
>> > opted for higher degree in Canada.. but unfortunately my immigration
>> > application has been rejected ... I wasn't satisfied with the bachelor
>> > degree I have, plus me loving networking technologies made me take the
>> > decision of studying for CCIE
>> >
>> > Of course.. I don't have work experience.. and relying only on
>> self-study
>> > is
>> > tough at this stage. .. so I headed to india looking for institutes that
>> > teaches CCNP and CCIE that was exactly on July 2007 .. I studied there
>> and
>> > in UAE as well as I kept coming and going back and forth the institutes
>> > there are crap .. if I do compare what level of knowledge I got from
>> them
>> > and what I have right now .. its almost 1:15 relied on all books of
>> CCNP
>> > and routing TCP/IP the 2 volumes which are truly THE books of CCIE so
>> here
>> > is my booklist :
>> >
>> > - Routing TCP/IP vol I, II, for Jeff Doyle
>> > - CCVP QoS study guide for Odem
>> > - Internet Arch, for Sam Halabi
>> > - TCP/IP illustrated, for Stevens
>> > - MPLS VPN arch
>> > - SNRS book
>> > - DocCD
>> > - O'reailly cisco ios cookbook and cisco ios in a nutshell
>> > - CCNP books
>> >
>> > the time where I knew about this group and Internetwork Expert and
>> Dynamips
>> > is almost on Jan/Feb2008 started with IE vol 1 and in the last 6
>> months
>> > (May Oct).. I was truly a caveman (see my facebook photo with the long
>> > hair and bread) studying almost 24/7 with few brakes and a month-end
>> > instead of a week-end for the ppl who are studying now.. my average
>> > productive hours per day was almost 7 hours
>> >
>> > During the 6 months I ve mentioned I did the following in order:
>> > -During June, I did IE vol 3 once
>> > -from the first of July, I started with lab 1 of IE vol 2.. the plan was
>> to
>> > finish a lab per day .. or to finish on Jul 20th. !!! .. the first lab
>> went
>> > smooth.. second one was a bit messy.. third took 2 days... and couple of
>> > days later made me realize I need much more time than expected.. I
>> finished
>> > the first round of vol 2 on almost the the end of Aug or 2 months later
>> >
>> > Surprisingly enough.. the major factor that made me consume more time is
>> > "BOREDOM" . Yes boredom it will start sneaking inside you starting
>> from
>> > lab 7 I still remember lab 18 which I finished in 10 days !!! its not
>> > because of its difficulty.. rather the fact that u don't want to
>> continue
>> > setting on the chair configuring
>> > Ive wrote a post abt this on GS.. went to the cinema.. had fun.. but
>> > without
>> > hope.. it was the most dangerous enemy of me that I couldn't defeat more
>> > dangerous than my classical enemy "memory" as I have below average
>> memory
>> > power . And speaking of difficulties in memorization.. I used to write
>> > notes I wrote and wrote and wrote almost everything I encountered in A4
>> > and
>> > filed all in one folder
>> > This helped me to go back to anything ive ever encountered before and
>> more
>> > importantly, it helped me to understand more clearly !!... yes coz
>> suppose
>> > u
>> > ve seen some QoS tech like FRTS.. then u will say: "ya ya I got it"..
>> but
>> > in
>> > fact u didn't get the small key point there that won't show up until u
>> drow
>> > it on the paper so taking notes for me was a big factor of my success..
>> > Then I repeated the labs once again.. this time wasn't faster as I
>> expected
>> > coz of the my 2 enemies above mentioned.. plus the holy month of Ramadan
>> > (September) where we muslim fast
>> >
>> > I booked a seat on 21 of October I had lots of troubles in adjusting my
>> > biological clock which made me force myself to stay awake the whole 48
>> > hours
>> > before the lab night.. thanks to God I slept good 8 hours before the
>> lab..
>> > When I went out of the lab, I thought I wont make it as I finished on
>> time
>> > without a decent revision! jumped to my laptop and my email pressing
>> > refresh bottom almost every 10 seconds and got the "PASS" at 1:30
>> > am! .needless to say I made everyone around me wake up
>> >
>> > Thank you Brain & Brain & Petr from IE thank you Tony for from
>> > cconlinelabs.com .
>> > Hats off to Chris the developer of Dynamips/Dynagen
>> > Thank you GS
>> >
>> > Now I feel a bit hopeless in getting a decent job in dubai coz of two
>> major
>> > factors:
>> >
>> > - the global financial crisis where most multination companies r having
>> > hiring freeze.
>> > - ZERO years of experience :D
>> >
>> > ive started sending my cv everywhere the whole last month and I didn't
>> get
>> > a
>> > reply from any company till the writing of this email wish me a good
>> luck!
>> >
>> > Adam
>> > CCIE#22416
>> >
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