Includes the IT certification subway mapHow ATS software reads your resume
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Inside the guide
One question. Forty-eight pages of answers.
Which certification to take, in what order, and how to make recruiters notice it.
Station 1 · The filter
Why a good resume stays invisible
What an applicant tracking system really does with your resume, and what brings it up when a recruiter searches.
Station 3 · The map
The certification subway map
Networking, security, cloud, systems: four lines, one transfer station, and your starting point based on where you are today.
Station 3 · The map
Eighteen certification cards
Exam, price in US dollars, validity: every card checked against the vendor's own site in October 2026.
Station 2 · The value
The CCNA changes on February 3, 2027
What moves, what stays, and which version to prepare for based on your exam date.
Station 4 · The method
The PING Protocol
Thirty minutes a day, built on memory research. Why 3 out of 100 people finish an online course, and what changes the outcome.
Station 5 · After
Make the certification speak for you
Resume, LinkedIn, technical interview. And where our characters are six months later.
The plan
Five stations. One idea per station.
If you keep only one sentence per chapter, keep this one.
1
The filter
Recruiters don't read you. They search for you.
8-min read
2
The value
The cloud is just someone else's network.
3-min read
3
The map
The right certification at the wrong time costs you a year.
9-min read
4
The method
Watching someone configure a switch is Netflix. Configuring it yourself is a skill.
5-min read
5
After
The certification opens the door. You're the one who walks through it.
5-min read
Preview
Flip through it before it lands.
A white paper that reads like a graphic novel, with the rigor of a reference document.
Five years. Three failures.The story behind the method.The 75% mythWhat hiring software really does.The subway mapEvery line runs through the same station.Three profiles. Three doors.Your way in, based on where you start.Would you board this plane?Doing, not watching.Six months later.Each of them took their line.
The characters
They live the question so you don't have to.
Mistakes included. You will recognize at least one of them.
AlexI can do the job. Nobody sees it.
LeahNo degree. IT isn't for me… is it?
HugoNetworking? I'll get to it later.
NadiaShow me the proof.
And the ATS, the applicant tracking system: the memory of an elephant, zero imagination. If it isn't written on your resume, it doesn't exist.
The author
He failed the CCNA three times. The problem was the method.
Ten years as a telecom technician, then voice over IP wiped out the job. Five years of retraining, three intensive bootcamps, more than €20,000 spent. A little every day, hands on the gear: that's how the CCNA finally came. Before, he applied into the void. After, recruiters were the ones reaching out.
In 2017, he founded Formip to build the shortcut he wished he'd had. This guide is its map.
Damien Soulages · Founder of Formip · Cisco Learning Partner since 2017
700+people coached to the CCNA
90%+pass on the first attempt
18certifications decoded in the guide
You learn by doing. Not by watching.
The ping goes through, or it doesn't. Same with your resume.
