Hi all!! I graduated 6 months ago with a Bachelor in electrical Engineering with emphasis in communications. I am now facing a situation which i think your insight and experience might be helpful for. So i got a job offer to work as a junior network engineer in this huge company, 1 year contract working under the supervision of a guy. I also got accepted for Masters in Information systems management at a top college that has a distinguished reputation. I have no work experience other than 3 months internship, and my feeling tells me to go for the job for one year and then enroll for my masters, since i can delay the admission for one year. what would be the best thing to do? i am also working on my CCNA during my free time, and would also welcome any suggestion anybody might have regarding which cert to go for next, and that is if i need any regarding the academic path that i am in. I prefer to go for hard and challenging stuff that will truly contribute to my expertise rather than something that would make my resume flashier

Thanks guys!!

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Take the job, then go back to school. What you learn in a production environment in one year will teach you more than everything you learn in the Master's program.

The experience will not only be good for your resume, but it will give you much better insight in your graduate classes.

I worked for a couple of years before I started my graduate studies. I couldn't believe what a difference it made.

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thanks curiousgeorge!! i guess you're right, you take more advantage of your masters when you already have work experience... you at least know why you are studying the stuff. Do you think i should continue with cisco certs? i'm really into networking but heard that it is highly recommended to go for Microsoft as well. do you think CCNP or CCSP should be the next step?

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I'd also recommend taking the job. Even with a Master's degree and no experience, you won't get the high level jobs right away. Also, if you're accepted at the college now, you'll still be able to go in a year, and many businesses offer tuition assistance. As far as certs, it depends on what you want to concentrate in. Microsoft certs will help with more systems engineering (active directory, mail servers, IIS servers etc), Cisco CCNP would get you into more infrastructure type stuff (routing, switching, etc), and CCSP would help for infrastructure and security. All depends on what you wanna do, and some jobs might include all of those things.

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