Cisco Certifications: Your door to Success!

Cisco Certifications: Your door to Success!
By Mohit Bhalla
Sep 19, 2014
Informational Articl...

Many people remain illiterate about value of Cisco Certifications. People who do not possess one find it silly discussing about scope or value of such certifications. However people who own it know how these Cisco certifications have changed their lives forever, for better. Different levels of certifications carry different value/importance like is CCNA which is an associate level of certification is difference in its value to that of CCNP which is a professional level certification. This article will help you understand the value of various Cisco networking certifications and benefits they can create for your job.

Consider the following points to understand value and scope of Cisco certifications in detail:

1.      Opportunity to grasp new stuff efficiently and effectively

  • Cisco certifications help you learn new things from the starting of your training till the end of it. Each of the existing certification has their own set of new technologies and protocols with very little amount of actual applicability in real lives. Learning new technologies not only increase your knowledge about the track but also make you more preferable when it comes to getting a job, making your value stronger and better prominently.
  • You get efficient while dealing with various issues which might occur while working for companies. Your knowledge and experience lets you configure, handle, and maintain network things much better than before. You are able to act quickly, wisely and instantly making your value to the company worth considering.
  • The ability to find issues in networks and solutions to those issues make you stand apart from those who do not possess one or have got the certification through fraudulent means or actions. Such candidates might be able to acquire little amount of value that is short lived. Candidates who actually study and practice to achieve the concerned certification are the ones who actually reap the best value out of the available Cisco certifications.

2.      Career Growth On Its Way

  • Cisco certifications not only provide you with better promotion opportunities but also enables you to take your knowledge to a higher level taking the next step towards your career’s success. Taking your knowledge to the next level might not always mean to make more money but it will definitely allow you to be able to take more work responsibilities than before.
  • Advancing in career can be easily achieved through Cisco certifications. These certification make the entire growth process very easy and simple helping you get a desired increase or change at jobs. If you are unemployed then these certifications surely make you employable, getting you in the interview room at least.
  • Also to note that having experience along with Cisco certification do work wonders for professional growth but experience only adds up to the entire process. It is not solely responsible in getting you a raise or better job as such because chances vary from company to company.
  • One thing which goes against having an experience in some company or the other is the scope of learning new stuff while not being certified and yet being employed is narrower. That is your growth gets stagnant because you aren’t aware about what you are learning and how you can expand your knowledge while being at the same place, in the same job role.
  • Having these certifications to one’s credit signify that you possess certain level of extra knowledge unlike others making you more employable and company friendly.

Scope of CCIE in India

Total number of CCIEs worldwide

There are only around 35-40,000 CCIE certified engineers worldwide. Whereas IT industry needs over 500,000 CCIE engineers in 2015 and 2016. Every company dealing in IT support wants to hire expert level engineers but availability of such professional is quite low. There are very few training companies’ worldwide offering CCIE courses.

Elimination of Silver level partnership

Cisco recently announced to eliminate Silver level partnership with its partners and now there will be only Gold level partnerships left after Premier Level. All silver level partners would have to either upgrade their partnership level by hiring more CCIE’s or get a degradation in partnership level with Cisco remaining as premier level partners. Most of the companies will hire CCIE engineers and apply for Gold level partnership with Cisco. This is how a huge demand of CCIE certified engineers will raise in 2015 and 2016. If a company becomes premier level partner and couldn’t get CCIE engineers and prove their expertize to Cisco, then they will be degraded from Silver level to premier level getting lower discounts on Cisco products in future, which will be a huge loss for the company. It will be mandatory for them to hire CCIE’s.

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Cisco training Institutes

There are very less number of institutes offering CCIE courses worldwide. For example in India many training institutes claim to offer CCIE level of trainings but they do not have real racks or enough racks/trainers to deliver the same. There are only 2-3 CCIE level companies in India who can actually deliver CCIE training at very good level and produce CCIE’s. For CCIE R&S courses there are some institutes, but there are only 1-2 institutes who can offer CCIE Security training in India. Demand of CCIEs is really huge in countries like Nigeria, Cameroon, Belgium, Ethiopia, Sudan, South Africa, Dubai etc., but there is not even a single institute for CCIE courses there. Many students from Africa want to pursue CCNA, CCNP and CCIE courses from Nigeria but they come to India for trainings because of unavailability of resources in their own countries. CCIE training in USA and UK is comparatively very expensive as compared to India. Network Bulls offer Cisco certification courses like CCNA, CCNP, CCNA Security, CCNP Security, CCNA Voice, CCNP Voice, CCIE R&S, CCIE Security and CCIE collaboration in India but it’s not feasible all of foreigner/international students to visit India for the same. That is the reason we have started offering CCNA and CCNP boot camps in Nigeria and Dubai. Less supply is big reason behind huge demand of CCIE engineers worldwide.

Hence, we recommend everybody out there to go for Cisco certifications as these certifications will change the way your employers hire you in higher job roles.

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