There is a likely possibility that in the upcoming weeks/months I will have the opportunity to apply for a Linux Network Admin job, through a friend of a friend. I am sketchy on the details as the contact themselves are away on leave.

In order to try and put my best foot forward, I am trying to fully document my home network. I have had no major problems with the pretty pictures describing physical and logical network topology etc. but what I would like to do, is write up a network plan/proposal, that could be used to propose my current network, as a solution to an imaginary clients need.

I see this as perhaps being something that would show the prospective employer that I have done that little bit extra, and that I have the communication and written skills as well as technical skills.

I have googled my brains out looking for an example document so that I can read over it, to get an idea of what I am doing. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to turn up any useful results.

Would somebody be kind enough to point me in the right direction as far as putting a name to the document I am trying to produce, so I can hit google for examples with some direction, rather than blindly stabbing in the dark..

Cheers

I think you may be overshooting the mark, for a Network Admin job the first question they'll ask will be if you have any certs and the second will be what previous experience you have. I don't think showing your home network design will help but if you had a lab at home then it would probably be ok to show a couple of diagrams of that. Just make sure your diagrams look professional as diagram/doco updates are a regular part of the job.

good luck

I've discussed things I did at home in job interviews before. Two jobs ago I actually brought in a tiny circuit board I had built at home. It was kind of amateurish in retrospect, but it showed initiative and they hired me.

I may well be over shooting the mark, but I really don't see this idea negatively affecting my chances. If *I* were the employer, I personally, would look favorably on somebody that is prepared to make an extra effort. But that is just me.

This guy has apparently had trouble with university educated people, either having a degree while knowing squat, or having a degree and trying to tell him how he wants something done.. This is apparently the reason he is interested in talking to me, as being self taught, suggests I can continue to teach myself, which (at least to me is more beneficial, than somebody who can remember something from a book, and recite it in an exam).

My home network, for all intents and purposes IS my previous experience, I am a welder by trade, and have been for the past 12 years, the prospective employer is aware of this.

I know a lack of schooling (as opposed to education), and experience will undoubtedly have an effect on my prospects of changing industry, but I should probably have mentioned that at this stage, its not an advertised position, so competition isn't really an issue, its more a matter of making a good enough impression to get a foot in the door. Hence why I am trying to go the extra mile as far as impressing by doing the "boring" documentation type stuff, that I see as being just as important as the nuts and bolts skills..

I don't mean to sound unappreciative of the advice, as I DO appreciate it, but would anybody be able to help with naming this plan, or even a link to an example?