There are many instructors with no real world experience. Do what makes you
feel good, the rest will take care of itself.
Mark Krysinski
CTO
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
jeongwoo park
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 10:56 PM
To: Groupstudy
Subject: Disappointed with CCNP --Original poster
Hi group members!!
I am the original poster of this thread.
First of all, I appreciate your encouragements,
concerns and even criticizing point. I received more
replies than I expected.
There were some people who made a point on removing my
ccnp cert from my resume.
It was not only thoughtful suggestion, but also scary
suggestion, because I felt that removing it from my
resume was like 7 months of ccnp prep going down the
drain all of a sudden.
However, I made up my mind not remove it.
My intension of listing ccnp on my resume was to show
how much interest I have on networking. I believe that
there is clear difference between ccna without
experience and ccnp without experience. If I were
employer, I would hire ccnp without experience because
there is obviously difference between these two guys
in terms of the amount of technical knowledge and
potential performance that he or she might make.
As some members mentioned, lots of people consider
their careers from IT industry because of money. I
agree with them not only I am partly one of them, but
also money can be one of strong motivation in
advancing their living condition. But money doesn’t
give me enough motivation as my interest in networking
does. I didn’t even consider CCNP. I was going to
start to look for a job after I got MCSE and CCNA
certifications.
But I couldn’t stop my interest in knowing more on
network knowledge.
There might be some people who would say, “ none of
these guys would be hired.”
Well, the biggest irony that I have is that who is
going to start his or her career in IT industry if
everyone is looking for only experienced engineer.
That is why I am looking for entry level of job. I
wouldn’t be able to perform in the beginning as much
as years of experienced CCNP would do. But I am sure
that I could learn things faster than most of
entry-level job applicants.
If nobody offers me a job, I would go for CCIE without
any corporation experience. I would buy network
devices, and take ccie lab classes. I wonder if there
is anyone who made ccie without any corporation
experience. I wish there were. If not, I will be the
first one who becomes ccie without experience. I am
not talking about home-network or training school
network experience. I am talking about the experience
that can be obtained as a network engineer.
I know it would be harder to become ccie without real
world experience, but I believe that lots of members
who showed their concern would be with me.
When I become CCIE, I will put nothing but CCIE, and
see if anyone gives me job offer.
I wonder if people who emphasizes on only experience
still wouldn’t hire me.
For the people who are already out there and working
for company without any certification, I respect them
because they might have had harder time on getting a
job than I do.
Since I posted my message, I had some job interviews.
Well, I will see how it will go.
Once again, Thanks you for encouragement and advices.
I will definitely let you know if I got hired.
jeongwoo
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