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CISSP
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CEH/CNDA - Growing at an unreal pace
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MCSE – Boot camps aren’t good! Unless you have the experience…you aren’t an engineer if you don’t know what you are doing!
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Linux
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MCP
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Security+
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Network+
The lucky seven, and you better have the hands-on to prove it.
Memorizing a study guide does not make you a professional. Period.
Our students get 2100 hours lecture and labs. We constantly give them positive feedback but tell them the negatives of just memorizing a study guide. Why is it people won’t do the excercises with virtual computers, real labs, internships and play with their own computer until they break it? They would rather memorize a test and pass it.
Knock it off, you are hurting the industry. Even if you break into a job with certs, get the big bucks, you are going to fall if you don’t have the skills. Old IT guys can see through it. The customer can see through it. The title doesn’t make you smart.
A degree or diploma doesn’t make you smart.
Skills in your industry and worker ethics are what makes a good IT person.
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Where do you get your statistics and info on what makes CEH and Security + so in demand? Just curious. Thanks.
We based this on demand from our students and the jobs they have interviewed for. With 8570.1 (Government requirements) for Security+ and the demand for security needs (CEH). Typically trends that are pushed across the net and recruiters that call us.
Statistics that we have for job demands for the southeastern United States. We train and help students get jobs. Remember this blog is for anyone but is catered to our CIT class. Good Question.
We based this on demand from our students and the jobs they have interviewed for. With 8570.1 (Government requirements) for Security+ and the demand for security needs (CEH). Typically trends that are pushed across the net and recruiters that call us.
Precisely. In my own opinion, even if you don’t finish highschool, as long as you’ve got the skills and prove yourself worthy enough to be hired and paid big, you can survive in the programming world.
About the certifications you posted, I hardly even know them. In our part, we are encouraged to take Philnits(JITSE), Java certifications, Microsoft certifications, CISCO, etc. also A+.. Anyway, the more certifications you have, the more attractive your resume will be, skilled or not, but of course, you have to have the skills to survive. My blog about keyboards -> Ergonomic Keyboards
It is true; without the experience you have very little going for you. I will say however, those whom harp on those with degrees and certifications excessively are usually the ones without any. Just as one with a lot of certifications is to be scrutinized, if they lack the experience, those without any certifications or education must be as well. They are the ones constantly acting as a cancer in companies because they typically belittle everyone in an attempt to cover their shortcomings in academia.