Heh, on that note, the PR director at the college I work for actually missed the infamous "Director of Pub(l)ic Relations" mistake get passed him on the caption of his picture in a publication to our alumni announcing his own hiring. It made it out to about half our alumni before someone spotted it in the mail services department and they reprinted to finish the mailing.
First off, I totally agree with the bit about connections and who-you-know... Its kinda disheartening in some ways to have to lean on a good-ole-boy network, or name dropping or those types of things, but having an advocate inside a company can really help get a foot in the door, and that is usually the key to long term employment.
I don't think specilization is the key, in this economy... From my perspective, if my employer where to decide to hire into our IT department tomorrow, it would be for a "floater". someone who can troubleshoot desktop PCs with the best of em, then turn around and trouble shoot a java servlet under Tomcat on Novell, then plan out a set of new printer rollouts, and manage the print accounting software long term. In othe words, do it all. Certs and degrees can be the initial eye catcher, but flexibility and the ability and willingness to learn is what keeps you there long term.
Although the registration process hasn't been manditory till what, XP? From previous posts, it sounds like the eligeble products are cut off in 2001...
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Heh, on that note, the PR director at the college I work for actually missed the infamous "Director of Pub(l)ic Relations" mistake get passed him on the caption of his picture in a publication to our alumni announcing his own hiring.
It made it out to about half our alumni before someone spotted it in the mail services department and they reprinted to finish the mailing.
First off, I totally agree with the bit about connections and who-you-know... Its kinda disheartening in some ways to have to lean on a good-ole-boy network, or name dropping or those types of things, but having an advocate inside a company can really help get a foot in the door, and that is usually the key to long term employment.
I don't think specilization is the key, in this economy... From my perspective, if my employer where to decide to hire into our IT department tomorrow, it would be for a "floater". someone who can troubleshoot desktop PCs with the best of em, then turn around and trouble shoot a java servlet under Tomcat on Novell, then plan out a set of new printer rollouts, and manage the print accounting software long term. In othe words, do it all. Certs and degrees can be the initial eye catcher, but flexibility and the ability and willingness to learn is what keeps you there long term.
IMHO
-Matt
Although the registration process hasn't been manditory till what, XP? From previous posts, it sounds like the eligeble products are cut off in 2001...
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