| After leaving Avaya I worked for an Avaya Business Partner for a few years. All the current switches are IP based systems so you have to work on networks to install them, and I have seen all sorts of IT departments.
Everything from embracing it to raising the drawbridge and guarding the gates with swords and cannon.
It has been my experience that it is easier to know telecom and learn data than the other way around. Nowadays most all data hardware is connected with either an Ethernet patch cord or a fiber. All the work is software internals. Not every phone is a single pair phone nor is every phone an IP phone.
You want to see a deer-in-the-headlights expression, give a data guy a punch tool and tell him to punch one phone down on the second and third pair, the next phone on the first and third pair, another phone on the first and fourth pair, etc. Then tell him that the T1 goes on the first and second pair, but if it doesn't come up he might have to roll it.
We have the easy part, data guys have the hard part.
As far as job hunting, any company will publish their want list for the ideal employee but they will take the closest match for the job that walks in the door. If a person applies that actually does have all the certificates, he/she probably won't get the job because they will ask for too much money. __________________
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Marty |