Finished my uni degree in December and just had my results confirmed:
Now to get a job...
BEng with First Class Honours in Computer Networks and Distributed Systems
Now to get a job...
Result!
- Thread starter colin79666
- Start date
Currently reading:
Result!
Good work :slayer::slayer::slayer:
and good look finding a job
and good look finding a job
I saw the word computer and network.
My best advice to you is....
Cisco
My best advice to you is....
Cisco
garlicbread22
Member
Jealous! still got 2 and a half years to get my MEng
OP
OP
I saw the word computer and network.
My best advice to you is....
Cisco
Yeah though it might see if I can find any courses being run near me. Uni used to run them but we were advised not to do it in our honours year.
Have done bits of CCNA and CCNP in our WAN, Security (PIX/ASA) and Routing modules.
Worked in IT for a few years and everyone keeps saying CCNA is the way to go
yep CCNA or MCSE - I am looking for a new job, but as I lack the bits of paper for either of those it's prooving harder than it would have been a year ago.
Well done!
Well done!
Well done, and good luck finding a job.
I still have two more years of uni to use as an excuse not to get a job in the industry
I still have two more years of uni to use as an excuse not to get a job in the industry
Well done
congratulations.... good luck in finding a job
Well done OP!! :'DWell done, and good luck finding a job.
I still have two more years of uni to use as an excuse not to get a job in the industry
and yeh popsrocket, i'll be at uni for 5 years
What do you want to do with it? What I mean is what direction do you want to go? Networking? Unix? Microsoft? Security? Figure that out first. But, when you choose one remember that to be really effective you want to have an understanding of all of them.
You also need to understand - and I cannot stress this enough - networking. Not in a basic way. Get TCP/IP illustrated and learn it inside and out. Know how to diagnose basic routing problems, you need to understand how applications talk on a network, you need to know how to figure out why your solution is giving you grief and in a vast majority of cases this involves the network. Get familiar with tcpdump or windump or wireshark if you're of a visual nature. This will help you across any of the disciplines above in more ways than you might think.
One of the hot topics floating around at the moment is virtualisation because it comes as part of any 'cloud' environment. Cloud being fancy speak for scalable managed services. But again, that's a specialty area.
If you want something that touches on a lot of these areas and generates more chaos and interesting stuff in a day than MCSE's get in a lifetime, have a look at the security field.
I'm at work at the moment so I can't expand upon this to the degree I'd like to but if you want to get an idea of what someone who hires IT security engineers looks for, PM me and I'm happy to discuss. My background covers stuff as diverse as financial market paging systems, novell, linux, microsoft, cisco networking and security products from a dozen different vendors and I've had a reasonably wide exposure to the IT business over 15 years and 3 continents.
cheers
Jason
You also need to understand - and I cannot stress this enough - networking. Not in a basic way. Get TCP/IP illustrated and learn it inside and out. Know how to diagnose basic routing problems, you need to understand how applications talk on a network, you need to know how to figure out why your solution is giving you grief and in a vast majority of cases this involves the network. Get familiar with tcpdump or windump or wireshark if you're of a visual nature. This will help you across any of the disciplines above in more ways than you might think.
One of the hot topics floating around at the moment is virtualisation because it comes as part of any 'cloud' environment. Cloud being fancy speak for scalable managed services. But again, that's a specialty area.
If you want something that touches on a lot of these areas and generates more chaos and interesting stuff in a day than MCSE's get in a lifetime, have a look at the security field.
I'm at work at the moment so I can't expand upon this to the degree I'd like to but if you want to get an idea of what someone who hires IT security engineers looks for, PM me and I'm happy to discuss. My background covers stuff as diverse as financial market paging systems, novell, linux, microsoft, cisco networking and security products from a dozen different vendors and I've had a reasonably wide exposure to the IT business over 15 years and 3 continents.
cheers
Jason
Finished my uni degree in December and just had my results confirmed:
BEng with First Class Honours in Computer Networks and Distributed Systems
Now to get a job...
Awesome result well done, time to go out and celebrate.
Just a small matter of a job now - Good luck
This calls for a victory tune.
I need to find a different one some time.
I need to find a different one some time.
pk090
Established member
mannn thats a heavy beat! im sure somebody must do a dubstep remix of that...
