Computer Certification: Become A Utility Player
Posted in Computers on August 12th, 2009 by cahyoIn baseball, a “utility player” is one who plays more than one position. These players are usually backups, but they have a job in the major leagues because of their value to the team; since they can play more than one position, they have that much more value to their employer.
Too often in IT, workers become either LAN or WAN engineers, knowing little if anything about the other side. Many LAN administrators I worked with knew little about routing and switching, while many WAN engineers I knew not only didn’t know much about the LAN side of their network, but they didn’t want to know anything about the servers!
In today’s IT world, it’s a bad idea to specialize in only one thing and not know how to do anything else. Not only does it limit your future career prospects, but it limits your current prospects as well. Employers don’t want to hire someone and have them get up to speed on the job – they want someone who can walk right in and do the job. The more you know, the better your chance of getting a better job – or quickly being able to get another job if you were laid off tomorrow.
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