Quitting my job soon...

I am a CCNP in R&S and am about to start my CCIE R&S journey.

Due to the size of my current company, they are unable to offer me a decent salary. I'm going to begin looking for a new job in the upcoming months. Since the CCIE R&S track focuses on a wide variety of technologies, I figured I'd start with (and become highly skilled at) a certain topic or two to spruce up my resume. Any suggestions on which topics would be most useful based on current job trends? Ex. Security, IPv6, QOS, etc

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Turgon

IPDirect wrote: »

I am a CCNP in R&S and am about to start my CCIE R&S journey.

Due to the size of my current company, they are unable to offer me a decent salary. I'm going to begin looking for a new job in the upcoming months. Since the CCIE R&S track focuses on a wide variety of technologies, I figured I'd start with (and become highly skilled at) a certain topic or two to spruce up my resume. Any suggestions on which topics would be most useful based on current job trends? Ex. Security, IPv6, QOS, etc

I dont understand the question. Is it CCIE study advice you want or careers advice?

sieff

I've never seen an unemployed CCIE.

HTH.

ipSpace

Hello,

I recommend starting with BGP, QoS and MPLS . Eventhough you should know basic BGP configuration.
I think that those are the most used, when an employer is trying to recruit a new guy. This normally apply for NOCs jobs.

RickRandhawa

Turgon wrote: »

I dont understand the question. Is it CCIE study advice you want or careers advice?

Both.:)
I wanted to know which CCIE topics I should first master in order to make myself most marketable since I'll be applying for a new job while still studying for the CCIE.

Sett

I think some of the topics that make the difference between the regular network engineers and the distinguished ones are MPLS (VPLS, TE...), Multicast and IPv6
You'll not find these technologies everywhere though, but the overall understanding of them is not very good.

Turgon

You should understand the following well for routing and switching:

Path determination methods
Filtering
Summarization
Aggregate announcements

mikearama

For my 2 cents...

You cannot know enough security and QoS. If your future company requires multicast, own that too.

In my experience, most companies (outside of ISP's) don't give a rat's ass about ipv6, and have only a token interest in BGP (a one-time setup if they have mutliple ISP's providing multiple internet feeds). It's the internal stuff... like firewalls, an IPS, QoS, clean routing and spanning-tree setups, etc... that matter most.