Certified Network Cable Installer ?

boolve

Hi,
This is my first post here.
I'm beginer in networking. How to say beginer. Maybe 8 years ago I used to work in computer seling/repairing company in small town, then company moved to IPS , there I was IT technikan. Puling CAT5 to end users and preparing PC's. Setting up Wifi antennas and powering devices in premises. But for last 5-7 years I'm carpenter or just simple builder and fed up to breathe dusts and stuff like that.
I start self study for CCNA, for now I'm at subnetting and router protocols. Seams for me that is possible, maybe slowly but I will get there.
And I decide maybe change my job title as well, even before I get Cisco certificated.
Certified Network Cable Installer will suite me very well. But here in London I have newer tried this. One man, Manager of one cabling company told me that I must have accreditation. And I have no idea how to? I don't want to work for free
I googled for Certifications, but they quite expensive. For exemple:
Certified Network Cable Installer Advanced – Advanced Unit - Training course catalogue - QA
5day course will cost about £840. Or for example this one Certified Network Cable Installer Advanced – Core Unit - Training course catalogue - QA about £1,300.
Of this one Certified Network Cable Installer (CNCI®) | CNet Training Price: £1,995

Thats not small moneys.
Thats my question - do you know some ways how to get certificated for reasonable price or be accredited (or how to get job in this industry) ?

Thanks a lot.

registrant

I'd advise you go for the Network+, it focuses partly on the maximum lengths of cables, health and safety of cables (Plenum vs non-plenum etc) and what sort of networking you should implement based on different scenarios. It's only ~£160 to sit if I remember correctly.

boolve

Yeh, maybe I will add this to the list..
Thanks.
Any more suggestions?

Asif Dasl

Maybe things are different in the UK but in Ireland you don't need to be accredited to run cables - sparks tend to run a lot of cable over here and there is a lot of competition. I've done a bit myself over the years and certified the cabling too.

Not sure which certification you HAVE to do to run cable but I would go with whichever was cheapest and is the bare minimum to run cable - there is not a lot to it really. UNLESS you are cabling up datacenters! then I think it's whole different ballpark.

But for regular buildings it's common sense health and safety and you are trying to avoid electricity where possible obviously. You might want to check with your local sparks for jobs they might subcontract to you to do... just a thought

Good luck whatever you decide to do!