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By: Greg Ferro

Greg Ferro — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:16:35 +0000

Good stuff.

By: Dedan

Dedan — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:04:35 +0000

Can’t argue with my having bought my way in. I am always looking for something better though. After being in the military for 12 years if I’m not doing something new after 12 months I start getting antsy.

By: Greg Ferro

Greg Ferro — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:17:08 +0000

The net result here is that you “bought” your way in by getting paid less than you were worth. Welcome to capitalism I guess, becuase this is the most common route.

The only thing is that many people fail to keep moving jobs (particularly in countries like America where people feel tied to their jobs i.e. health insurance, 401k) and this fail to match their potential.

By: Dedan

Dedan — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:55:31 +0000

The route I went was to work for a smaller company. At first they didn’t really pay what I was worth but after proving myself to them they came around. I was willing to work for less acknowleging that they needed to see what I would do. I also sought out larger companies that had programs the paid less but gave you the exposure you needed like Cisco’s Associate Network Consulting Engineer program but couldn’t wait for 12 months for the next class date.

I don’t envy any hiring manager’s balancing act in this regard to which one to give more value. I can only hope they are sufficiently impressed with my being certified and the rest of my resume to even talk to me.

By: Dedan

Dedan — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:22:46 +0000

I was quoted, that’s cool.

By: Doug

Doug — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:10:02 +0000

I’ve followed the thread on etherealmind with interest as I reckon i fall between the gaps… in that there is a transmutation between knowledge and experience that depends up on exactly what you are (t)asked to do.…

I used to manage a multi vendor test model — loads of hands-on experience, yet probably fairly thin on the “knowledge” front — enough to get by in any area, yet by no means considering myself an expert. ( yet I managed to get a fair reputation simply from applying “experience” from one environment / system onto the problems with another ).…

now I do Cisco IPT design which I consider a subset of the areas I used to cover, and suddenly “knowledge” is all — so I’m now having to gen up on the nth degree of detail on topics that I used to consider trivial ( i.e. qos on frame relay )

My point is that there are roles that will call for a varied mixture of experience and knoweledge — and I’d say it was generally easier to build someone’s knowledge in an area then their experience.…

just my 2c…