My Cisco CCNA 4 class will end soon and I'm looking for what I should study for my next certification while hunting for a consistent entry level I.T. job. I currently have the Comptia A , Server , Microsoft MTA Server Admin Fundamentals and Cisco CCENT. Looking over the objectives it seems like I know a decent amount of the Linux Essentials material. I pretty much don't want to spend $100 on the Essentials and find out no one takes that cert seriously. But in theory I guess having the Essentials cert is better than having no Linux certs depending on the company and the people I'm competing against for a job.

Thank you for your time.