certs depend on what you are looking to do.
i have been working in networking for the last 3 years so when I got out of school i was able to go right into working. my company is paying me to get certified through their partner vendor since as a business partner we get benefits and awards for having everyone be a certain level of certification. things like if you are certified, you get automatic escalation of help tickets about products to avoid the simple level 1 troubleshooting talk. again, i would never pay for these since its very vendor specific but it is nice to build up on your resume in the future.
some places do ask for a type of cert before they look at you to prove what you know. it is a standard since anyone can say they have “networking expierence” so it might be good to know. i would save your time and money and take a higher level one such as CCNA since “Cisco” is a buzz word in the industry.