Saturday, December 12, 2009

Professional Certifications Are More Important Than Ever

Less than 6-7 years, your MCSE or CCNA is almost a guarantee for an administrator role with a salary in the IT market heavy. Candidates with certfications were much in demand and have been offered management positions and have been assumed by many suitors. This is when things changed, people started hittting books and laboratories and realized the importance of growing market shares of the bank and the mania for dot-com technology. The market is flooded with certified professionals who have been hungry for knowledge and success. Wages began to fall and more analyst and administrator roles and MCSE suddenly needed even get an interview. Saying that I am an MCSE or even raise a eyebrown again, the only way to set yourself apart from a crowded IT market is constantly continue to study and achieve more certifications and qualifications. But not an end in site? That's the question that seems to be unsettling IT professionals in this day and age. We are studying and getting those certs we need for the jobs they want, but we must never stop learning and that any number of certification enough? At present, the answer seems to be no. With Microsoft, Cisco and other hardware and software constantly upgrade their software and certification programs, even the most qualified professionals will continue deep into the future with new products and technology in the new era. If you decide to leave school, will stay in a game that seems to gain strength and competitors. All this does not mean that the work experience is not as important as in the past. Having a work experience is more important than ever. All these certificates are useless unless you have a position where you can actually put those skills to use in the real world. So the task has become even more difficult, is to take the job full-time employment, you will have time after work and on weekends to study and continue their education in the field that is already working a. So the message to all you out there deeply immersed in the printing of textbooks from Cisco or Microsoft Select a 2, the next is to what seems like an endless line of evidence in its calendar of events is: to maintain head in books, in order to stay ahead of the game, you are obliged to continue studying and taking standardized tests in depth the future.

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