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Rant: college is a scam
(lemmy.world)
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BS Cybersecurity. A topic I'm actually interested in. 🥲
Good luck.
Start out doing helpdesk. The job sucks and so does the pay, but it's a foot in the door and where most IT people I know started out (including me)
Can't agree more. Managers normally want to see "professional" work experience. College, courses, certifications only get you so far. Working a year or two as a help desk technician will really push your career forward.
There's also the aspect of the managerial "I had to do it so why should you get to skip to the middle" attitude, which isn't fair but is reality
Do you have any certifications? Keep an eye out for which ones you keep seeing in job postings and work towards any that you don't already have.
That’s my field. Yeah, it can be hard to get your foot in the door, but once you’re in, you’re in. The nice thing is that all the info and experience you need is freely available. Want to show off malware analysis skills? Download a sample, tear it apart, write up your thoughts, and post it in a blog. Link to it in your resume. I’m a hiring manager, and I read those. Is network analysis more your thing? Malware-traffic-analysis.net. Know what we need? People who know what the three major cloud providers’ security logs look like and know when something actually bad is happening, because the default alerts are pretty useless. Same for O365 logs. Sometimes, I feel like our userbase wants to get their accounts compromised.