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Start with the CCNA certification and books from Cisco Press. Indeed, there are many publishers who release books on the Cisco certifications.
In order of difficulty, they go
CCNA
CCNP
CCIE
The CCIE is the "gold standard" in networking certification. It will be next to impossible to you get to this standard unless you actually work in a company with lots of cool kit that you can play around with.
But the CCNA is a great start and will certainly differentiate you from other new grads. CCNP is the next step up, but you will probably need to pay for classes and/or do this somewhere where you can tinker with actual routers/switches. The CCNA is entirely possible with just plain old book-based study.
Good luck.
Oh, and if you're really into networking, don't bother with MCSE. Any telco or enterprise will laugh at that if you are applying for a network engineer job. It's fine if you want to manage/deploy Microsoft servers etc, but useless for a real network engineer role.
Mr Mephisto
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