If you are a team leader or manager in an IT team, you doubtless work with individuals with varying levels of expertise and disciplines in the field of IT. Established, seasoned IT professionals grow their knowledge and certifications over time to great heights, sometimes reaching levels where they are deemed to be experts.
On the other side of the spectrum, there are those that need to find their footing in IT. These newer-to-IT individuals showed great promise or had enough experience as a hobbyist of computers to get a job in the field. Getting these newer individuals on a path to success takes considerable effort. Sometimes these IT younglings haven’t learned how to study. Sometimes they have large deficits in their background. But in all cases with newer individuals, training is needed.
The challenge is, what class and knowledge body makes sense for promising IT professionals that are trying get their footing in the fast-paced world of IT? While there are many contenders (CCNA, AWS Cloud Practitioner, Microsoft MD-100 and CompTIA A+), if in doubt, recommending Network+ offers a good deal of benefits.
Network+ hits on networking, OSI model, subnetting, cloud, wireless, security and troubleshooting principles. It also hits on an arguably overly large set of technologies. And yes, there’s so many technologies that Network+ covers it teeters on the absurd. But there’s a benefit. This class acts as a primer for any IT discipline. Cloud, networking, cybersecurity and server administration all build off of what an individual learns in Network+.
More importantly though, Network+ is a steppingstone that can lead to a pattern of success. If the right class is up in the air, you don’t want to send these individuals into a quagmire where they might not establish successful work habits that lead towards outcomes like knowledge acquisition and certification. If you need to push towards a class for up-and-coming talent, put Network+ among the top-tier options.
