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[Robert Brockway]

On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Vlad wrote:

>       I know of several places that would instantly hire people with
> good networking skills (Cisco routing and switching), firewalling (PIX

Do you mean Cisco specific experience or an understanding of networking 
theory?

In my experience a lot of people are lacking a good theoretical 
understanding of networking.  Having this under your belt helps a lot when 
dealing with complex networks.  Examples of the network theory I'm talking 
about:

- Be able to work with CIDR in your sleep
- Understand what a netmask is and what happens if it is wrong
- Understand broadcast, unicast, multicast and anycast.
- Be at least comfortable with IPv6 concepts

> and *nix-based solutions), as well as *nix skills. Pretty good

I think Linux skills are more in demand than they have ever been before.
IMHO there has been a shift from big iron *nix skills towards Linux.

>       As for DBA or programming positions, those are much more the
> Senior level, with ridiculous amounts of experience. Whereas the

Good sysadmins tend to make average developers (and vice versa).  In my 
experience sysadmins mostly stay sysadmins and developers mostly stay 
developers.  Sysadmins are often drafted in as DBAs.

Thus many people are recruited right out of university to do development. 
People get recruited right out of university to be junior sysadmins too.

I'm talking generally across the industry here.

Cheers,

Rob

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