Interesting discussion in this recent chat with Cisco Subnet blogger Brad Reese. Reese explains again why he thinks Cisco is not on the up-and-up over its so-called job and skills shortage. If the IT industry is convinced that the world is hard-up for more Cisco professionals it can recruit for its certifications programs like mad.

Even more importantly, Reese says that the best way to boost your career is to focus on (and only on) the technology that excites you and let the money find you. It will, he say, it will.

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