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hello, an easy one! what would be an acceptable salary for a CCNA with very little experience,key word LITTLE EXPERIENCE, what should I spect, and what would be a good offer to start?
Thanks again guys!
MDL3

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by penguinsrule

Do you have a degree? What is your little experience in? Do you have other network experience??

If you are just a CCNA with little or no experience, then you are probably looking at something in the 30K to 40K a year. It all depends on where you are located, and what you will end up doing. Do anything you can to gain experience, and go ahead and study for your CCNP.

It is all a supply / demand thing. If you are located in an area where they don't have any CCNA's then maybe you might do better than in a saturated market such as a big city where there is a lot of stiff competition for fewer jobs.
There are plenty of companies located in places where nobody wants to live for some reason that will end up paying you more. Do yourhomework - and market your resume aggessively.
Little experience doesn't tell me much. Lets say a person has 15 years of networking experience with little experience on Cisco, and they just got their CCNA - well that person is probably more valuable than a person who doesn't have any experience and may not have a degree that just passed the exam. There are a lot of complicated factors. hope this helps.

by mdl3

thanks, well i only have the experience I've aquire on the school lab, wich is pretty desent, we have 10 Cisco routers, 5 2500's and 5 2600's, 10 Catalyst 1900 switches, I've been able to implement various configuration using PPP PAP CHAP, HDLC,frame relay, mix PPP and Frame-Relay,IPX,config VTY lines,I could say I have firm understanding on those technologies implementation, I've put together a couple of very small LAN's (5-10 users)wi98 platforms from the groud up, I also have little but increasing knowlage on Novell NetWare, im still going to school for it.
I'm an intern for a medium size company, Ive been there for a week only so I'm not couting that yet but onece Im finish they'll give me like a letter stating that I did work with them as an intern, and there is also a chance that I end up getting a job with them, but who knows, there isn't really much to do, they have like 150 users but it seams to me there isn't much to do for a CCNA,we gonna have a project starting tomorrow, we gonna connect the NY location to the LA location using VPN, but it seams to me that after that it is gonna be all LAN,more CNA than CCNA, I prefer CCNA but I dont mind learning more Novell!
so what do you think would that count as little to no experience??
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Thanks!
MDL3

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