Re: Vendor cert levels

2014-09-04 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 10:00:17AM +0100, Isaac Adams wrote: As a general rule, do you all fund employees certification and if so what kind of levels do you try to maintain as good practice? No and none. I see value in competence, practice, experience, education and the inevitable bitter

Re: Vendor cert levels

2014-09-04 Thread Bill Woodcock
We got a resume once where the guy listed 2-day workshop on personal grooming, Karachi, Pakistan under his education section. I think that trumps the Kentrox certification. :-) -Bill On Sep 4, 2014, at 0:58, William Herrin b...@herrin.us wrote: On Wed, Sep 3, 2014

Re: Vendor cert levels

2014-09-04 Thread Isaac Adams
In all seriousness, some people could do with that! On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Bill Woodcock wo...@pch.net wrote: We got a resume once where the guy listed 2-day workshop on personal grooming, Karachi, Pakistan under his education section. I think that trumps the Kentrox

Re: Vendor cert levels

2014-09-04 Thread Eric Stoltz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The technical term for that music is the Cisco Disco On 09/03/2014 05:34 PM, Jon Garrison wrote: On 3 Sep 2014, at 12:23, Jared Mauch wrote: On Sep 3, 2014, at 5:00 AM, Isaac Adams isaacna...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Folks, I am trying to

Re: Vendor cert levels

2014-09-04 Thread Eric Stoltz
The technical term for that music is the Cisco Disco On 09/03/2014 05:34 PM, Jon Garrison wrote: On 3 Sep 2014, at 12:23, Jared Mauch wrote: On Sep 3, 2014, at 5:00 AM, Isaac Adams isaacna...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Folks, I am trying to work out a strategy for vendor certification

Vendor cert levels

2014-09-03 Thread Isaac Adams
Hey Folks, I am trying to work out a strategy for vendor certification in our company. As a general rule, do you all fund employees certification and if so what kind of levels do you try to maintain as good practice? For example. NOC staff should be JNCIA and engineering JNCIP to JNCIE? Clearly

Re: Vendor cert levels

2014-09-03 Thread Jared Mauch
On Sep 3, 2014, at 5:00 AM, Isaac Adams isaacna...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Folks, I am trying to work out a strategy for vendor certification in our company. As a general rule, do you all fund employees certification and if so what kind of levels do you try to maintain as good practice?

Re: Vendor cert levels

2014-09-03 Thread Trent Farrell
^^ It really helps if you're a Cisco shop to have CCIEs. Every place I've worked has offered to refund the cost of a cert after you pass (if the employee fails, the cost is on them), and it's had a pretty decent uptake among the more junior staff - as well as the CCIE re-certs. I'm not sure if

Re: Vendor cert levels

2014-09-03 Thread Jon Garrison
On 3 Sep 2014, at 12:23, Jared Mauch wrote: On Sep 3, 2014, at 5:00 AM, Isaac Adams isaacna...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Folks, I am trying to work out a strategy for vendor certification in our company. As a general rule, do you all fund employees certification and if so what kind of levels do

Re: Vendor cert levels

2014-09-03 Thread Derek Andrew
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Re: Vendor cert levels

2014-09-03 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 5:00 AM, Isaac Adams isaacna...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to work out a strategy for vendor certification in our company. As a general rule, do you all fund employees certification and if so what kind of levels do you try to maintain as good practice? For example.