How To get a JOB with a CCNA (Network Engineer) | CCNA Routing and Switching

So I remember when he passed the CCNA, the first thing I told him was get your resume in order.

And what are some of the things I told you to kind of

polish it up and get it ready for people? Put your certifications at the top.

Make sure to have, of course, your most recent experience first.

So hopefully you've probably been in some type of technical role, hopefully like help desk or desktop support.

That way they see that you are capable of doing technological things.

So the first thing is huge.

A lot of people, they get a resume template and just kind of follow it, tit for tat, thinking that's what they should do.

No. You're applying for a job in IT.

And I apologize for any ambient noise, especially this thing right here.

Why don't you introduce him to your pug? This is not my pug, this is his pug.

This is my pug, Django.

He's sleeping on me right now.

No, he's not scared, and that's just how he looks all the time.

So in IT, right now, as it stands, certifications tell people two things.

That you know your stuff, and that you put in the time to learn it.

and that you're in the process of learning.

Did you put anything else on your resume, like working on something, like working towards a certification?

Yeah, it's good to put the certification that you plan on working on next.

That way they know that you're just not a, you get one and you stop.

They want to know that you continue to learn.

You're going to continue to use those things to benefit the company that you're going into.

Yeah, and here's the other thing, and this is why I told them to do this, and this is why I do it still.

I still have it on there.

If you're working on a certification, put that in your resume, write that underneath the one you already have, put in parenthesis, you wanna be honest, so put in parenthesis, in progress.

So I remember when he passed the CCNA, the first thing I told him was get your resume in order.

And what are some of the things I told you to kind of

polish it up and get it ready for people? Put your certifications at the top.

Make sure to have, of course, your most recent experience first.

So hopefully you've probably been in some type of technical role, hopefully like help desk or desktop support.

That way they see that you are capable of doing technological things.

So the first thing is huge.

A lot of people, they get a resume template and just kind of follow it, tit for tat, thinking that's what they should do.

No. You're applying for a job in IT.

And I apologize for any ambient noise, especially this thing right here.

Why don't you introduce him to your pug? This is not my pug, this is his pug.

This is my pug, Django.

He's sleeping on me right now.

No, he's not scared, and that's just how he looks all the time.

So in IT, right now, as it stands, certifications tell people two things.

That you know your stuff, and that you put in the time to learn it.

and that you're in the process of learning.

Did you put anything else on your resume, like working on something, like working towards a certification?

Yeah, it's good to put the certification that you plan on working on next.

That way they know that you're just not a, you get one and you stop.

They want to know that you continue to learn.

You're going to continue to use those things to benefit the company that you're going into.

Yeah, and here's the other thing, and this is why I told them to do this, and this is why I do it still.

I still have it on there.

If you're working on a certification, put that in your resume, write that underneath the one you already have, put in parenthesis, you wanna be honest, so put in parenthesis, in progress.