Career Testing and Tests

[riff]

If you are exploring career options or possibly changing careers, I highly recommend you take the following test (be prepare ready to invest about an hour).

JobsFitWorld

My students are taking this test right now.

For those of you who think all of these tests are bunk, try this one (it's very short)



EasyJobs

 

[Azwed]

Riff what do you teach again?

 

[sexy-girl]

thanks book marked it to do at a later date ... im thinking of changing jobs

 

[riff]

Riff what do you teach again?

Internetworking, my man, internetworking....

 

[riff]

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[sabbathstorm]

Interesting little survey. I took it for the hell of it just to see where I'd end up. Probation and corrections were high on my list (1 & 3). Ironically, that was my goal after college but I didn't get too far with it. The personality questions were dead on. Excellent site riff!

 

[riff]

I took it, but left the results at school.

I can remember:

#1 Creative Writer
#2 Mental Health Professional
#3 Elementary School Teacher

#5 Network Specialist
#8 Vocational/Education teacher
#9 Funeral Director

Heh. Funeral director! heheheheheh

It's actually quite a good aptitude accessment, I think.

 

[sabbathstorm]

I'll be recommending it to a few classmates. Quite a few are at the crossroads right now and aren't too sure of where they're going in the fall. The way it's going, about 10 people might return out of an original class of about 30.

 

[riff]

I'll be recommending it to a few classmates. Quite a few are at the crossroads right now and aren't too sure of where they're going in the fall. The way it's going, about 10 people might return out of an original class of about 30.

YOUR INSTRUCTOR SUCKS
(I hope that you, and all of your classmates realise this. Rip the school's ass. At the end of each CCNA semester you must fill out a feedback form.)

Write Cisco Systems. They need to know. I am dead serious. Don't let that school get away with lack of instruction.

It totally sucks!

You will do well wherever you go, Sabbath. I have no doubts! It's not for everyone- but I would hate to see someone change direction because of an idiot when they were in the right direction to begin with.

 

[Dillinger]

I'd probably end up no where near what my actual career is! *lol*

 

[sabbathstorm]

There have been a few complaints already about the instruction (or lack of it). The teaching has been left up to the students for pretty much all of the courses this semester. Hell, even I was tutoring for a while (although not in networking LOL). I won't be as nice this time around with the assessment for the completion of semester 2.

I don't intend to give up networking without giving it a damn good try. I'm going in early next week to do some router exercises to make sure I'm good and ready for the final.

 

[riff]

It just pisses me off to no end, S. Because though the material is strange to people who have never been there before (students), with a little effort and explaining, it is not difficult!

Listen, YOU PM me if you are having trouble with any of the concepts- I will help you as best I can. Some of the later chapters on routing protocols and the upper layers are poorly written.

As for a practical exam- remember, the "?" your various "show" commands will save your ass. Especially "Show Interfaces" and "Show Protocols"

Enough. PM me if you need any help. And also remember- forget about your grades. It's about what you learn.

And another thing. There are a bunch of certified morons out there that can't do shit. I actually had a CCNA ask me, "What is TFTP?" I shit you not.

 

[crysede]

Thanks Riff,

that was very interesting, the personality traits and abilities sections were amazingly accurate. I was expecting the career advice to be pretty silly, but of my top five, all are careers I could see myself enjoying, four of them are fields I even seriously considered going into at one time. I will definitely be recommending the site to friends.
1 Radiologist
2 Software engineer
3 Biochemist
4 Surgeon
5 Biologist

 

[sabbathstorm]

It just pisses me off to no end, S. Because though the material is strange to people who have never been there before (students), with a little effort and explaining, it is not difficult!

Listen, YOU PM me if you are having trouble with any of the concepts- I will help you as best I can. Some of the later chapters on routing protocols and the upper layers are poorly written.

As for a practical exam- remember, the "?" your various "show" commands will save your ass. Especially "Show Interfaces" and "Show Protocols"

Enough. PM me if you need any help. And also remember- forget about your grades. It's about what you learn.

And another thing. There are a bunch of certified morons out there that can't do shit. I actually had a CCNA ask me, "What is TFTP?" I shit you not.

I'm not that bad yet I'm pretty good at keeping my protocols straight, can do the hyperterminal and telnet in my sleep. If I don't find that run through on Monday helpful, you'll be finding a PM in your box.

 

[heterotic]

I actually had a CCNA ask me, "What is TFTP?" I shit you not.

I can't believe anyone could forget a service that runs on UDP port 69. That's just incredible.

Hm... Maybe I should get myself one of those CCNA things...

 

[sabbathstorm]

I can't believe anyone could forget a service that runs on UDP port 69. That's just incredible.

Hm... Maybe I should get myself one of those CCNA things...

Oh hell why not Things I've been reading lately haven't been portraying the CCNA in a good light. I'm looking for some solid statistics on how many are employed/unemployed. I'm also looking for some proof of the curriculum being offered in US highschools. Does anyone know about this?

 

[heterotic]

Oh hell why not Things I've been reading lately haven't been portraying the CCNA in a good light. I'm looking for some solid statistics on how many are employed/unemployed. I'm also looking for some proof of the curriculum being offered in US highschools. Does anyone know about this?

I couldn't find anything on the employment rate for ccna's, the closest thing I found was an 89% employment rate for graduates of a winnipeg school course that covered ccna-like material but didn't include the certification; and 95% from ICT, a technical college in a similar situation.

 

[heterotic]

I'd been under the impression that CCNA's were at least viewed far more favorably than MCSE's, though.

 

[GreenEyedGirl]

Ha! I had no idea that my aptitude lay in different areas. Surprisingly enough, my actual job (the one that pays my bills) was near the bottom of the list, and my fun job (the one I wish I could do and be paid consistantly enough to pay my bills) was #2. And you never said there was going to be math involved! Felt like I was back taking my GRE's, sweating over things I learned a decade ago.
But anyways, apparently this is what I should be when I grow up:

1 - mental health counselor (96%)
2 - creative writer (92%)
3 - forester
4 - Cust. Service Rep.
5 - Case Worker
6 - Employment counselor
7 - Newwork Specialist
8 - Substance Abuse Counselor

(the last ones were all 86%)

Thanks for the link Riff, gave me a good laugh. Apparently I should be counseling people, which kind of scares me.

 

[heterotic]

Thanks for the link Riff, gave me a good laugh. Apparently I should be counseling people, which kind of scares me.

That's what my father does. He's nuts. I think that's something they look for, to see if you'd be good at the job.

 

[sabbathstorm]

My career matches were not that high in my assessment. My top choices were only at about 78%.

 

[freescorfr]

I'm buggered if I'm taking this test. The impression I get of you all in the States, is that you continue to live in slavery, either to the state or to giant corporations or, to the belief that you have to work to live.

You need to be emancipated from employment. Over there you appear to be either masters or slaves.

 

[GreenEyedGirl]

You need to be emancipated from employment. Over there you appear to be either masters or slaves.

The Emancipation Proclomation, unfortunately, did not cover wage slavery, only human slavery. And here the almight dollar is god.
That is why I am going to move to Europe and become a full time writer. At least over there creativity is lauded while you are still living.

 

[GreenEyedGirl]

That's what my father does. He's nuts. I think that's something they look for, to see if you'd be good at the job.

Well then, I have a new career path! ha! And I actually flirted witht the thought of beciming a pyschologist for awhile in my youth, loved the classes I took in college, but it was not to be, my creative self beat up my analytical self, and now they live in symbiotic harmony with the creative ruling the whole.

 

[TWB]

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