Why You Must Have CCNA Certifications Become A Network Admin

You just graduated from BTS, a DUT or a license. In the IT job market, we will stick a label of what is called: "network administrator", this term is based on a mix of skills and level of study to signify what you are (basic skills networks + level of studies bac + 2/3)

So as a young network administrator, a lot of doors are open to you ... and that's where the bat hurts ... too many doors are open to you and the risk that you end up taking the wrong door and crashing without realizing it in what we can now call a "job creep", a kind of work where you do not evolve, do not learn anything new ... a food limit job what.

Do not take overly versatile or wiring jobs

In fact, in the Paris region (and perhaps in a few other regions), there is a large concentration of computer centers and large companies ... Suddenly cabling needs are frequent. And don't ask me why, but today the act of taking a cable, carrying it to the server, connecting it, then passing it under the false floor to the switch, companies want network administrators. This is the reality of the market, and you have to deal with it but above all not to be fooled.

How to foil these kinds of announcements? It's simple as soon as you see wiring, or patching somewhere in the job description you should avoid.

Experience has shown me that when the box hires an admin / network engineer to do the deployment for example and although in the deployment there is a cabling part, it is never mentioned because it is implicit.

So the reflex to have is to blacklist any advertisement containing somewhere wiring or patching (we will often put part-time) because your beginning of career will be reduced to taking in the morning excel photocopies of your wiring matrix and carried on your back 10kg cable then go under the false floor and catch lime air flows then cold air see both at the same time ...

Another risk at the start of your career is to select a mission or a job where you will be very versatile. This time this kind of position is more in the provinces that we find, in SMEs, in the public service where you will have to do not only networks, but also the system (mainly windows server), backups , telephony, user assistance a lot of things but rather superficially.

I had an experience of this type in the provinces during my first and second year engineering internship, the advantage is that we touch a bit of everything, but it is still quite superficial. Your goal when you have passed your BTS, License is to be a network / security expert not to know a bit of everything,

You Take Big Risk

I really saw a lot, a lot of people so a lot of BTS / DUT ending up at 40/45 brushes ending up doing wiring. But "madam, madam there are no sub trades", eh no, there are no sub trades but why literally break your back doing cabling while you can mess around configuring routers in OSPF, gain skills and make you pay even more.

Some have the impression that the wiring, when I write its lines, is the prison in New Caledonia. Well, for doing it, I can tell you it's hard. You receive wiring requests in rotten excel files, and you have to pull cables from point A to point B.

Already, you take in the face, fresh air at a certain height, then hot air at another height, and at the end of the first day you get sick. And when we talk to you, you hear nothing. The effect of the deafening noise of thousands of fans rotating at different speeds.

So if you want to do that, you can, but you will be paid 100 euros more than the minimum wage, and in 20 years you will do the same if it is not relocated

Your goal when you graduate from BTS, DUT or License is to acquire skills. When you leave school, you have some vague notions of networks, but it is really in business that you will understand how networks in practice work, and what skills companies want and you will know how you stand in relation to that.

So your objective is to integrate a large company which has a large network (with various equipment (Cisco, Juniper, Nortel, F5, HP, Bluecoat etc) and where you will have to install the equipment yourself. The problem of average business is that the networks are already in place, and if there is a complex evolution to be done on the archi, it will be done by an integrator not by you.

So how do you integrate a big company to do lots of great things? Already, you have to want it, in fact, it can be intimidating for some to respond to advertisements for offers containing lots of skills, and asking for a network engineer.

The second thing is to have the basics of what is done in a business, and one way to prepare well is to pass the Cisco CCNA certification training in an intelligent way (understand the theoretical concepts, do labs to do as we were in a club)

Training or Disappear

We are at a time if you follow the latest political debates, it is that in the long term your employer will be able to fire you for X or Y reasons. What's the only reason an employer will want to keep you? If you bring him some dough. If you are an expert on Visual Basic will this help your boss? No, he's going to throw you out for a job.

If you are an expert in PHP on the other hand, it may have a mission for you because everyone needs these technologies to develop their business. Everything goes through computers now, it has come to a point where if you miss the mark of new techno you no longer exist, remember the photo development shops if you were born in the 80s. had everywhere.

It is gone now. But to make them disappear, we had to hire an army of computer scientists and experts, and this is where you can get out of the game. That's how it is. Suddenly, you have to have a fine nose, and see how techno evolves and adapt, self-train or even change jobs if you learn nothing.