NEED help from all certification takers...

[GprophetB]

Hey thanks for looking at my thread...

question is if you could pick and choose "any" amount of certification vouchers (within reason not every single one) that would be good for 1 year. list your top 10.

THANKS

(reason being i have an opportunity to receive 10 vouchers)

 

[GprophetB]

Sorry for the shortage of info... in order for this to benefeit me you would need to know what im going into.

My assoc. degree is in network communication.. my goal is to be qualified to be a network administrator of some sort (Netware, AD, etc..) then to go on and get my masters in business and become an MBA.

Right now im taking a Netware 6 class that ive had previous experience with before. Also a linux/unix class.

I have a good amount of knowledge in networking and physical hardware. too

-post later..

 

[smashp]

First off Novell Netware 6 training is 100% completely worthless. Nobody uses it because it costs too much.

Forget wasting your money on certifications. Get a job first then get them to pay for them.

You have limited opertunity in the IT field right now, disreguard what the Tech school your going to told you, Their are limited jobs and a large workforce to compete with.

DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY on certs. They wont get you a job. Experience is the ONLY thing that matters right now.

If youve never WORKED in an IT department for a large or medium sized company and actually had Real Hands on experience ( not on your home network) Your screwed.

Better off to go get a job at Best buy. Theyll actully help pay for your college and even an MBA.

 

[DaveSimmons]

You'll get more responses if you ask career questions in Off-Topic instead of the General Hardware forum. GH is where you ask which i865 motherboard is best or whether RAID 0 is worth having.

 

[GprophetB]

Well you see im getting them FREE, and that is a good thing..

certs will never hurt your resume only make it more appealing, oh and yes i dont plan on getting some certs and running into the job market saying look at me bla bla ,

im currently a network technician at Lansing Community College (large community college too). I like my job and i plan to work there for a minimum of 2 years. That will get me in somewhere else a little bigger , which will add more exp.

And yes i know this is general hardware but most of these certs have to do with hardware and is kinda related.

 

[Alptraum]

I would say two of the most popular right now are MS and Cisco stuff. Mainly MCSE, MCSD and CCNP and up for Cisco. CCNAs from Cisco can help but they are pretty low level and tons of people have them. Citrix is also coming on real strong. I would mainly look into those three areas if I were you.

As a little background so you know where I am coming from I have been doing networking for 8 or so years and hold various certs from Novell and Nortell. I have been doing consulting for the last few years and am just now getting my MCSE and Cisco certs. I like working with Novell and Nortel more but the market does not, lol.

And while a cert alone will almost never get you a job (experience is key for non entry level stuff) they are becoming more and more standard. I know a number of places now that won't consider people without a cert in this or that thing. PLUS they want experience. For a lot of places I see now just one of them wont get you in, you need both.

And the reason Netware is losing so much ground has very little to do with price. In fact, as far as TCO goes Netware almost always kicks the crap out of Ms stuff. Its mainly excellent marketing on MS's part and some bad decisions on Novell's part that are killing the market share of Netware. Though I still see a number of places that use it and don't plan on changing. Technically I still think its superior though.