Jeongwoo-
With your high expectations of getting a job, I can understand your
disappointment. Expecting a certification to get you a job is setting
yourself up for disappointment because I think certification alone is not
enough to land a job. Certification must not be your only qualification
for a job - there are many other factors that are much more
important. Specifically, what matters most is your ability to do the job.
Your interviewer is constantly asking himself, "What can Jeongwoo do for
us?" And YOU need to answer that question for him. Here is an exercise to
help you figure things out: Change seats with the person who is
interviewing you and ask yourself, what can Jeongwoo do to contribute to
the success of this organization. Take as much time as you need to think
this through. Write down every benefit you offer to an employer (even the
little silly ones that come up). Read the list over many times. Develop
each Jeongwoo-benefit into a one sentence phrase that you can inject into
your next interview. You have to sell yourself to the employer - the
certification won't do it!
Also, what kind of job are you looking for? What is the job market? Your
target employers may not hold value in certifications, so you need to offer
them something they value. My experience says the type of company that
holds the most value in certifications is a reseller - they NEED certs to
keep their reseller status. Other companies place more value on your
proven ability to do the job based on your past experience. Since that is
limited to a lab, you really can't prove it to them. You need other
positive points to having you as an employee.
There are too many other factors that affect your chance in an interview to
list here, but consider some obvious ones. Being a recent college
graduate, how is your appearance (young and immature or professional)? How
well do you communicate with others? How confident are you and does it
show? Confidence in your knowledge of technology (and where/how to find
the info you need) and ability to do the job (configure, troubleshoot,
etc.) may be your biggest asset and that should show in an
interview. Again, there are MANY factors...
What qualities do you have that an employer MUST have? "How can Jeongwoo
contribute to the success of this organization?"
-Eddie
At 07:42 PM 1/8/01 -0800, park jeongwoo wrote:
>Hi group members.
>I need your help.
>I am having a hard time on finding a job.
>I recently got ccnp certification and looking for the
>entry level of job for network engineer.
>I am living in San Francisco, and graduated from
>college less than a year ago.
>I have less than a year of network experience that I
>got from school computer lab.
>I had a harder time finding a job before I became
>ccnp. So I studied hard believing that ccnp would get
>me somewhere at least as a entry level network
>engineer. Now I am kind of confused and disappointed
>with the fact that I am still having a hard time
>finding a job even with ccnp certification.
>I feel like I need more cisco certifications such as
>ccda, ccdp.
>Would these certification ever help me find job?
>It is really discouraging that cisco certification
>doesn't help me much find a job at this point, because
>I am also pursuing ccie too. I have to ask myself what
>is the point of getting cisco certification.
>Lots of CCNAs are having a job. Why not ccnp?
>
>Could somebody tell me why it goes like this, and what
>I should do?
>Am I looking for wrong job?
>
>I will appreiciate your input.
>
>jeongwoo
>
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