[chaco]

Thank you ver much for your time!


Last Name __________________ First Name __________________

Employer name ________________________________________________

Questions:
1. Which courses in college did you find that were helpful in your work?


2. If you would become a new grad again, what would you do to get a job; learn more to get a networking certificate, do another job in the computer field for collecting some experience, or something else?



3. After you got the job, how did you maintain your knowledge?



4. While you were seeking a job, did you receive a paper exam, interview, or both?



5. You must work with many tools; for example, network analyzers, fiber optic meters, network monitoring software, etc. How did you learn to use these types of tools?



6. What is your motivation to work in this field?



7. What is the most difficult duty in your job?



8. What is the next position you want to acquire in the networking field?



9. What challenges do you face in this job?



10. What advantages or disadvantages might you find in working for a government agency or private company?

[MarkinManchester]

Last Name _Not on a public site __ First Name _Mark__________

Employer name ______Many different ones, I am a contractor_____

Questions:
1. Which courses in college did you find that were helpful in your work?

All of them except for ITIL and other similar managment tools, absolute waste of time.


2. If you would become a new grad again, what would you do to get a job; learn more to get a networking certificate, do another job in the computer field for collecting some experience, or something else?

All of the above, any experience is good and you will have to accept many roles to achieve your goals



3. After you got the job, how did you maintain your knowledge?

Vendor, web, research, practice and using it on a day to day basis



4. While you were seeking a job, did you receive a paper exam, interview, or both?

Mixture, it depends on the employer



5. You must work with many tools; for example, network analyzers, fiber optic meters, network monitoring software, etc. How did you learn to use these types of tools?

See response to Q3



6. What is your motivation to work in this field?

Interest + Money



7. What is the most difficult duty in your job?

People! hardware software work within a given set of parameters, people don't



8. What is the next position you want to acquire in the networking field?

I don't, i would be happy doing something else that had a more tangible product. An artisan role of somekind, creative!



9. What challenges do you face in this job?

People, everything else has documentation to tell you how it works



10. What advantages or disadvantages might you find in working for a government agency or private company?

Committees, meetings, people who are party to decision making who know nothing about the product e.g. project managers

[chaco]

Thank you very much. I got an assignment from my teacher. My topic is about network engineering field. I will use your answer to write my paper. Thank you again.

Chaco