Your blog is fantastic but actually wrote for US people. In Asian country millions of aspirants seeking for Cisco certifications and lot of preparing for the exams but due to lack of proper information and guidance most of them gets fail. You got good job due to your skill set but in outside of US like in India most of the people are waiting for their first job after doing Cisco certifications. I really appreciate the post that are written to help someone: http://blog.uninets.com/4-things-to-know-how-you-can-get-entry-level-jobs-in-it-networking-industry/