Go CCIE Go!! - A Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert

A few years ago I was in a room and EVERYONE but me was a CISSP. The cert had become a commodity and everyone started getting it in like 2004. What are the odds 6 guys (3 it, 1 finance, 1 project management, 1 facilities!) from 2 different companies would all have the same CERTIFICATION?
The CCIE is going through the same thing now. I recently went to a technical interview for a consulting position… all 4 of us were CCIE’s And that’s just one small room, on planet earth.
As times get tighter and IT gets more and more commonplace you need to do A LOT to keeping earning the amount of money to maintain your family’s standard of living. Don’t be shocked to see these numbers accelerate as more and more IT fields overlap (i.e. voice and data = same dept in the company) and fewer folks are needed.
I’ll leave you with this;
I went to a “must be CCIE interview once”. They wanted 10 things, systems, email, backups, oh, yeah, and cisco”. Cisco is really becoming an afterthought to many organizations…
“I’ll take a C++ guy, who knows java, unix, shell scripts, oh, and when he’s not busy, he can re-design and admin my cisco network!”
-Joe
—–Original Message—– From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of yungli2008@gmail.com Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 3:25 PM To: ccielab@groupstudy.com Subject: General Question
Experts I couldn’t understand the CCIE number, current total CCIEs 17660 but the current number is 21665.
How cisco offer these numbers…. symmetrically or?
For example last month one guy got #21395 now another one #21665, within a month 270 CCIEs..? I can’t believe?
Li
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