Open almost any network engineer job listing and the requirements section reads the same way: CCNA-level knowledge, and "hands-on experience with routing, switching, and troubleshooting." That second part is where most beginners get stuck, because reading about a technology and having touched a real configuration are not the same line on a CV, and a hiring manager can usually tell which one they're looking at within the first two interview questions.
The honest problem with most self-paced networking courses is that they can't actually solve this. You can watch someone else configure a VLAN in a video, take notes, and still have never typed the command yourself under any kind of pressure. Nobody's checking whether you did the lab, so a lot of people don't, and the gap between "watched it" and "can do it" shows up exactly when it matters most.
Codelivly's Network Engineering Live Training & Internship is built to close that specific gap. Eight weeks of live, instructor-led sessions, three times a week, where you're actually configuring devices in Packet Tracer, and later GNS3 or EVE-NG for more realistic IOS behavior. Then, for students who add it, an optional fourth month where you apply everything to real or simulated network configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting tasks under supervision, documented the way an actual job would require.
What that internship month actually gives you for a job search: a specific project you can describe in an interview instead of a vague "I completed a networking course." "I configured inter-VLAN routing and OSPF for a simulated enterprise network, documented the process, and troubleshot the issues that came up" is a sentence that survives a technical interview. "I finished a Udemy course" usually doesn't get past the first question.
The 8 weeks of training itself:
- Weeks 1-3: OSI/TCP-IP models, Ethernet, MAC & ARP, IPv4/IPv6, subnetting, VLANs, trunking, Spanning Tree Protocol
- Weeks 4-6: static/dynamic routing (OSPF), inter-VLAN routing, HSRP, DHCP, DNS, NAT/PAT, wireless network design
- Weeks 7-8: network security (ACLs, firewalls, VPNs), monitoring, troubleshooting methodology, enterprise network design project
No prior networking experience is required, the only real prerequisite is basic comfort with Windows or Linux, and sessions run Mon/Wed/Fri, 3:45-5:30 PM UTC, an evening slot that lands at a normal hour across the UK and most of Europe.
The sale price, £99.99 for training only or £149.98 with the internship added, ends September 9, five days before the September 14 cohort starts.
Network Engineering Live Training & Internship, full program details
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