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Will it guarantee you a job? No. Absolutely not. I had an article published on Medium that goes into this same thought process with the A+. Same applies here[1]
Will it guarantee you a job? No. Absolutely not. I had an article published on Medium that goes into this same thought process with the A+. Same applies here[1]
Can it help you land a job as a junior network engineer making 70K + per year? Absolutely. But more important than the certification itself is being able to show that you have the ability to plan infrastructure and troubleshoot networking issues.
Want the best advice on being able to get a networking job? Practice your social skills. I have said it before and I will say it again, “Technicians are available anywhere.. technicians with people skills are not”. When faced with potential employers look them in the eye and be confident.
Ofcourse CompTIA Network+ certification will get you a number of job opportunities including:
CompTIA's Network+ certification is globally recognized credential designed to ensure technical knowledge required for foundation-level IT network practitioners to troubleshoot, manage, install, maintain, operate and configure basic network infrastructure, basic design principles, describe networking technologies, and adhere to wiring standards and use testing tools.
No. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a job description asking for Net+. Most networking jobs that want certification want vendor-specific certs, like CCNA.
Plus, Net+ is entry-level, so you have to have some experience to back it up, whether a degree or actual experience.
Net+ will give you knowledge of networking in a generic manner; basically, it teaches you how networks operate and some of the fundamentals when dealing with them.
The reason companies want vendor-specific certs is because networking vendors take that generic knowledge and apply their own “secret sauce” to networking, e.g. Cisco-specific protocols and commands. Knowing generic networking won’t do anything for you when you have to deal with these vendor-created network tools.
So, while Net+ can be useful to get you up to speed quickly in regards to networking, it won’t be useful in terms of actually getting a job. Do it for your own personal reasons, but don’t waste time/money thinking it will get you a job.
If you want an entry level networking cert that can lead to a job, look at CCNA. It is fundamentally equivalent to Net+ but, being Cisco-specific, can actually be used when searching job descriptions.
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