One of the best things you can do for your IT career is to obtain Cisco certification. If you don't know, Cisco is one of the largest technology related business in the world earning billions of dollars every year. Needless to say, it's got some money to spread around if you have something to do with them. Cisco certification pretty much says you know networking. When companies seek out their IT technicians they look for a degree and some sort of certification, and you don't get much better than Cisco certification.