CWNA or CCNA next?

Hello all, I will be taking the net+ exam in about 2 weeks. So now I am trying to decide which cert to go for next.
General IT background: I worked help desk/repair center for about a year and half - A+ certified and thats about it. I am trying to get back into IT and am finding it difficult to get back in. So I looking to be pointed in the right direction after my net+. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Brian Davis
General IT background: I worked help desk/repair center for about a year and half - A+ certified and thats about it. I am trying to get back into IT and am finding it difficult to get back in. So I looking to be pointed in the right direction after my net+. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Brian Davis
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I think having both certifications would be beneficial so I would probably get them both, although I may decide to go for Linux+ after the CCNA/CWNA. After that I am not entirely sure.
I realise the Cisco cert is vendor specific, yet would it help with general networking positions that don't even use Cisco products? Do employers look at it as: good Cisco knowledge or good Cisco knowledge + good general networking knowledge? If anybody can think of another alternative cert route that would be better, please advise.
Thanks,
Brian Davis
I just did a few searches on monster.com and here's some hit count results that I got on popular certs:
CISSP: 1000+
MCSE: 1000+
CCNA: 982
CCIE: 422
MCSD: 308
MCSA: 303
CNE: 278
MCAD: 189
MCDBA: 171
GIAC: 120
CCSP: 65
GSEC: 34
MCDST: 32
SSCP: 30
CWNA: 9
CWSP: 2
CEH: 1
Now these results are skewed because there are many advertisements on monster for IT schools which flash the common cert acronyms. Also, some companies will repost the same job requisition each week and that drives up the totals. And there is always a chance of an IT cert acronym matching an acronym from another field.
Despite all this, you can still get a good statistical idea of what's hot and what's not.
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Would be nice to see CompTIA certs added to the list, even though many of the jobs for the stats above will include those.
There should be a way to escape special characters like +'-[]"/\(), but none of the standard escape expression worked for me.
I'd like to see these types of searches performed every month on the top-ten job boards. We should be able to write an automated script to do this and have it post the results.
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A+ in the computer hardware, computer software, and IT categories gives 787 results, which might work with a small disclaimer as the results I check did actually include A+. Network+ however gives indeed the same results as network and "network+" so it's not possible to get an even close to accurate number on that one, nor sec+, server+, linux+ etc. Perhaps we can make a separate chart with the comptia certs based only on stats of job sites that recognize the +.
But this still sounds like an excellent plan. Unfortunately 'I' don't have the skills to write something that fetches info from other sites. Would be great if you or anyone you know can come up with something, otherwise I think it's worth a visit to rentacoder or elance.