I'll agree with job experience being the best way to start. I'm on the other side of the fence, and don't necessarily see just 4 years college experience as the best for hiring an IT person, same goes for just seeing CCNA/MCSE and so on. Now, job experience with such certifications, or schooling, or both is a definite bonus. It also depends what you want to do. If you want to go into network administration for an ISP than there's not much point in having an MCSE? If you want to administrate servers, there's little reason to have a CCNA. Someone with a CCNA and MCSE is quite possibly well-rounded (or really good at taking cert exams), but if I'm looking for a network admin I would go straight for the CCNP over the person with more lesser certifications on their resume.
Oh, and anyone who tells me they have an A+ certification has their resume located in the garbage can already. Take that crap off your resume.
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