Episode 15

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14th Oct 2023

Ep15: How to Get a Job in Cybersecurity with No Experience (Extended Version)

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So it was a test the other day I put in.

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How to get a job in cyber security.

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Without experience.

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And it was the audio from a YouTube short

of course, YouTube shorts, 60 seconds.

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And there's a lot of gems in there,

but I did get a couple of questions

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from listeners and they wanted a

little bit more of an extended version.

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So they understood the concept, but

maybe wanted a little bit more detail.

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So that's what this podcast is.

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So it's definitely longer.

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It's in the 25 minute range, which

may be a little too long, but Hey, if

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you're on a long road trip, And that

is what we're going to talk about today

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is that short version of how to get a

job in cybersecurity about experience.

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But this is going to be the

extended version, and I'm going to

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try to go into a lot more detail.

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So with that, I hope you enjoy.

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Marc: So can you get a job in

cybersecurity without experience?

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Well, short answer, no,

not really long answer.

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Yes.

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And I am proof of that.

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And I'm going to give you some

of the things that I did to get

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into cybersecurity without any

direct or initial experience.

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Tip number one, educations

and certifications.

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Now here's, I did a short on

this, but I want to go into a

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little bit more detail and depth.

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And what I did.

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Was when I was doing my I.

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T.

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style job, I knew that I wanted

to transfer into cybersecurity.

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I just, that just was the

field that I wanted to go into.

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I had a passion for it.

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I knew that where it

was, where it was going.

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It's becoming more and more of a thing

today with AI and everything else.

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So it is a very important field.

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And if you're passionate

about it and you're at I.

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T.

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and you want to move there or

you just want to get into it,

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then this is the video for you.

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I started out.

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with the CompTIA Security

Plus certification.

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And the reason that I did that was

because I didn't know, I knew I wanted

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to get in cybersecurity, but I didn't

have any idea of what realm or what

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field or what areas I wanted to do.

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But I wanted to study for a certification.

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And no, I'm not saying that boot camps

and certifications are the end all

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be all, but they are a great way to

get started and to figure out what it

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is that you're interested in doing.

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So I started out with that.

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I downloaded some apps onto my phone.

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I started studying.

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I got the official study guide.

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It was, and I started reading and

studying and studying and just

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taking flashcards and tests, anything

I could find in the internet.

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And I went to one of those facilities

eventually, and I felt like I was ready.

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I went to one of those

facilities and I took that test

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and I passed and it was hard.

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I felt it was hard.

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I really wasn't sure if I had passed.

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But I did, you know, that feeling

that you get taking certifications

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like that or studying for something I

think is super helpful because it will

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narrow down what realm it is that you

actually want to get involved with.

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And this is a tip I got from

another friend and it was brilliant.

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The C I S S P, go get the manual for

that and start studying for that as well.

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Because you get yourself into the jargon

and the language and the thinking of

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cyber security, you start to understand

all the different realms of it, all

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the domains, and you narrow down maybe

what you want to start to do, but you

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also have a lot of talking points, and

so when you start to talk to recruiters

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and you're going into interviews, It

really helps to get yourself into that

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you're, you're basically emerging,

immersing yourself into that field, right?

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So one of the things you think about

is, sure, I could study a language on

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an app all day and speak with nobody.

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Or I could go to a foreign country and I

would really start to learn that language

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faster because I hear it all the time.

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If you start to study for the

certifications, even if you

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don't intend to take them.

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It will help you to start to get

into that world, to understand the

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language, to understand the jargon,

and that is vastly important.

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So education and certifications, if

nothing else, it's just to get you

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interested in the subject and to

start to understand the material more,

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and understand that cyber security,

information security, is huge.

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And there's a lot of different areas.

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And you may want to focus on one of

those when you're applying to jobs.

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Tip number two, network.

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One of the greatest things about this

industry in particular, maybe a lot of

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other industries too, is that you can

network and that doesn't mean just what

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you think, like networking on LinkedIn.

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Networking isn't going to conferences.

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RSA is cheap, cyber security

type conference you can go to.

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B sides, DEF CON, whatever.

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It isn't just to meet people and look to

see, hey, is there a job or an opening?

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It's to get yourself into that industry.

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So when I started transitioning from IT

into cybersecurity, I got myself a pass to

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go to RSA and I just saw all the different

vendors and all the different booths,

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all the different technologies that I

hadn't been directly exposed to, but made

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a huge difference in what I was doing.

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I also got to talk to a lot of people.

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I got to talk to a lot of vendors.

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And I think that really helped again, when

you're studying for those certifications.

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The jargon, the language, being immersed

in that subject, going and networking

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is important, but it's different than

what you might have thought about 10

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years ago where, Oh, I'm going to go

to this meetup, I'm going to go to this

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conference, and this will be a job fair.

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No, no, no.

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None of that.

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It's simply you going to a place in your

industry and just immersing yourself in

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that and understanding what's going on.

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It really helps to get you into that

mindset and into that field to be able

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to really immerse yourself in that tip.

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Number three, internships

and entry level positions.

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I'm not so keen on the internships.

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I didn't start there.

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But if you are in college, I would

definitely check with an advisor

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and see if they have any connections

or anything that can help you

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out with some type of internship.

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That usually isn't something that you

find online, but it is something that

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your school may actually know about.

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Again, not my expertise, but

definitely a way in if you're younger.

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If you have a family to support

and things like that, I'm not

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really advocating internships.

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Entry level positions.

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YouTube video after YouTube video

after LinkedIn article, there's

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no entry level cybersecurity.

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Not entirely true.

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It's true in that you're not necessarily

going to come out of college or just

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go from IT right into cybersecurity.

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However, if you are in IT and you have

experience in that, and I did, it is a

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great way to get your foot in the door.

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It is hard to go from IT to

cybersecurity, and that's because a

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lot of cybersecurity hiring managers

may not see that as a direct transfer.

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However, in some other tips I'm going

to talk about, we're going to go

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over what you can do to avoid that.

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So those entry level positions

kind of do exist, especially

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if you have IT experience.

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And here's the thing, I've worked in

a lot of different organizations with

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a lot of very large IT departments.

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And I can definitively tell you that

not everybody in IT has any interest

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whatsoever going into cyber security.

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None.

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So you're not competing

with all of those people.

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But it is a way in.

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You do have experience.

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And it could potentially

be an internal move.

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It's harder to do.

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It's kind of a lateral transfer.

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But that's an easier transfer than having

absolutely zero IT and zero cyber security

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and trying to get into that field.

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If you don't have anything, at

all, getting into IT, you're

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not competing with anybody.

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It's not a bad way to go.

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And that is what I did

in my own experience.

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I actually had a lot of it experience and

I had to translate that into cybersecurity

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experience to let somebody know that,

Hey, while I don't have any direct

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experience with this, I have a lot of it

type experience with people, projects,

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doing things like that, and I can learn.

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And so that's a transferable skill

that I'm going to talk about.

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Tip number four is

projects and portfolios.

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You've heard this before

everywhere, really.

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Labs, building your own home lab,

doing whatever it is that you have

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to do to gain that experience, right?

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So you're building a lab, you're studying,

those are all things, those projects,

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those portfolios, helping, you know,

designing your own website, building

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your own route, you know, network,

firewalls, routers, anything like that.

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Those actually are things that

eventually you could put on a resume

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and have talking points about.

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And I think that's important because.

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A lot of people will just do a lab

and they'll say, Hey, I, you know,

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I completed hack the box or I did

something, but really you're doing

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a lot more than you think you are.

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And that is, those type of skills

are things that you should showcase,

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things that you should talk about.

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And so when you're looking at

your projects and your portfolios,

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just keep in mind, those are

resume building talking points.

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And they're also going to translate

into some other tips I'm going to tell

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you a little bit later in this video.

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So you do not, absolutely do

not want to discount that.

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If you build a website that's around

cyber security, you built this website

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that's maybe in direct relationship to

some volunteer activities you're doing, or

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helping people out in your community, or

you're teaching, or you're doing videos.

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That counts.

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That actually counts.

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And I don't see that on some

of the resumes I've seen.

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I don't see any of those type of things.

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Like outside activities where

somebody is, they're not waiting

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for a path to be built for them.

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They're building their own paths.

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And that is how they're helping

themselves get into this field.

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So, don't discount

projects and portfolios.

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Tip number five is online platforms.

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Kind of mentioned it before, but,

hack the box, any type of CTFs

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that you've done, things like that,

OSINT type skills, helping finding

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missing persons, that all counts for

experience, and again, talking points.

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What a recruiter's gonna see is, the job

description, and here's what the hiring

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manager wants, and here's your resume,

and here's the skills that you can do.

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You've got to figure out a creative way of

getting the things that I'm talking about

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doing and getting that onto your resume as

things that you have done and do so that

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they match those keywords to let a person

know that, hey, I can do these things.

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If you've done CTFs, if you've done

Hack the Box, then you've sort of

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done red teaming and pen testing.

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And if that's the area that you want

to go into, and you don't put those

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on your resume, that's a huge miss.

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Tip number six, blogs and publications.

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I thought about starting a blog, or

writing a newsletter, or doing something

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like that, but to build up that type

of authority in this industry, or any

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industry, building up an authority

website, unless you've got a ton of money,

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It's going to take a very long time to do.

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If I started this YouTube channel and I

doubt it's going to get anywhere until

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I get to the 150 plus videos, right?

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It doesn't matter how good this video is.

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It's going to take me a while to build

up authority that anybody even remotely

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is interested in what I'm talking about.

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So I didn't go down the

blogs and publications.

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I thought about it.

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However, what you can do and you

should do is connecting to LinkedIn.

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Get your profile going.

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If it's not going, get a background,

get those keywords in your title

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for what you want to do, not what

you're currently doing, right?

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Cause people are looking for people that

are, you know, these are the things I

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need to do, not what you have done, unless

you want to go into the same industry.

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And you're going to start

writing LinkedIn articles.

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It's a great way to do it because

that platform is already there.

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It's already established.

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It's already authority.

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And now it gets you a chance

to start posting and writing.

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And making content in the field, the cyber

security field that you're interested

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in going into and building up sort of

an authority, a little bit more of a

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presence, a lot quicker than you could

if you just started a blog in your own

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in the maze of the internet where there's

already a million blogs on the subject.

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So I did do the blogs and publications.

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I just happened to use the LinkedIn.

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Because it takes care of

a lot of things at once.

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A, it helped me to network on LinkedIn.

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And B, I got to actually start talking

about my expertise and the things that

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I was interested on that platform.

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Tip number seven is additional training.

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I actually did take

Coursera and Udemy courses.

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They were cheap and free.

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They helped me understand a

particular subject matter better.

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Maybe you're a little

light in the DNS field.

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Maybe you don't understand how to

build your own firewall, whatever.

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Uh, Cyberry is another great one.

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I'll link to some of

these in the description.

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Taking classes like that online, that's

not something I put on my resume, but it

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absolutely started solidifying areas that

I felt that I was weak in, especially when

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you talk to recruiters or you start to

get interviews, you go into interviews.

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You're going to figure out where

your weak spots are, and you can

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use these classes to start building

on that and understanding those

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areas that you're weaker on.

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So, taking some classes online

like this, like Udemy or Coursera,

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uh, Cyberic, any of those type of

classes is actually very helpful.

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In addition to studying for your

certifications, you can use that as a

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kind of a supplement, but it's a very

good way to understand the subject matter.

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And solidify some of the things you

may not understand and maybe even

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find a domain in cyber security

that you didn't know existed

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that you actually really like.

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Tip number eight, soft skills.

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I think it's important to talk

about those type of things.

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I don't like putting it on a resume.

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A go getter, energetic, ability to learn.

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This doesn't work in

resumes these days anymore.

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Maybe it did back in the 80s.

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But it doesn't work now or it really

isn't something that I bother with because

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everyone's just going to blow by that.

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It's fluff, but you shouldn't discount

it because it is important to let the

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people know that you're talking to.

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Not only can you do the job and you

have the skills to do the job, but you

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have the ability to learn, you have the

willingness to do these types of things

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that you're working outside and doing

side gigs and learning on your own and

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doing all these types, you know, those

soft skills matter producing this video.

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It's a technical skill, but

it's a soft skill to be able to

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try and improve on my speaking.

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And I think that's extremely important.

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And while I don't put that on my

resume necessarily, don't want you to

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discount that because it is important.

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Tip number nine,

transferable skills, huge.

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If you're still in this

video, this is huge.

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If you're doing something in

it for a long time and you want

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to move into cyber security.

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You have to figure out a way to make

those transferable skills matter.

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If you've built Linux boxes,

if you've hosted or built Mac

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machines, if you've done Windows,

if you've done infrastructure,

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if you've dealt with users, if

you're dealing with tickets, right?

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This may not be directly related

to cybersecurity, but those

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are transferable skills that do

matter in the cybersecurity world.

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And you should not discount those.

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In fact, I had to take a lot of the

things that I had previously done and

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reword them into a cyber security way,

like if I built a Microsoft Active

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Directory infrastructure, if I built a

SharePoint server, and if it was in a

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lab, or if it was in my, you know, current

IT career, whatever, or if I had You

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know, designed it, anything like that.

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How do you rewrite those

skills to be transferable so

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that they're cybersecurity?

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When you're building those machines,

what are you doing in your mind?

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What are you doing in your mind to think,

how does this relate to cybersecurity?

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Was I thinking in a

cybersecurity type way?

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Was I thinking in information

security to protect members data?

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Was I looking at patches

and things like that?

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And if the answer is yes, and it should be

yes, those are things that go on a resume.

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Deal directly with cybersecurity, right?

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Patch management, vulnerability

management, thinking about those

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type things, those transferable

skills are not worthless and

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you do have to connect the dots.

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One of the best, one of the best things

I heard is I had a friend who I referred

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to a particular position and I know

that he could have done the job, but

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he took a stock resume or his current

job and did not tweak it at all and.

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Applied for a position that I, like I

said, he could have done, but didn't have

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this, didn't connect the dots in that.

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And so the hiring manager asked me

because it was a referral from a friend.

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I just want to make sure that this

person, you know, just want to

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take another look at and make sure

I'm not missing something here.

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And the interesting thing was he

gave, he gave me a really good tip.

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He's, he said, nobody has

time to connect the dots.

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Meaning.

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Your resume, when you submit that, and

this is why you always hear about creating

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a tailored resume for that particular job.

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When you submit your resume for that

position, you need to connect the

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dots to the recruiter, to the hiring

manager, so they can understand that

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you are the person that can do that job.

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They are not going to have time

to connect the dots for you.

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So if you don't connect the dots,

they're not going to do it for you.

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So those transferable skills that you

have, that you know have something

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to do or could have something to

do with cyber security, You're

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thinking that mindset, right?

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You've got to connect the dots.

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So not only do you not discount

transferable skills, but you need

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to connect the dots with the hiring

manager and the recruiter to let

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them know that you have the skills

to do that because they're not

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going to connect the dots for you.

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Tip number 10.

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Stay updated.

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Listen to podcasts, read blogs, keep up

to date as best you can on what's going

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on in the field that you're interested in.

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I had one person when I was in an

interview, it was kind of a round

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table, they said, what podcast

do you listen to for security?

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I actually have some on my overdrive.

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And so I was able to answer that question.

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Doesn't mean you listen to it

every day, but if it's a question

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they're going to throw at you,

like how do you stay updated?

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You've got a great answer.

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I read these blogs, I use Feedly, I've got

Overdrive, and I listen to these podcasts.

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That's it.

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No one's going to ask you what happened

in those podcasts, or what do you

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find most interesting about them.

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How do you stay updated in

this field that's constantly

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changing is a valid question.

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And it is one you can easily

answer by staying updated.

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Very easy.

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So whatever industry that you're in, go

ahead, subscribe to some blogs, subscribe

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to some newsletters, listen to some

podcasts, That's how you stay updated.

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That's how you answer that question.

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Tip number 11, further education.

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So if you want to go back and get

a degree in information technology

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or a information security related

field, you can certainly do that.

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That isn't what I did.

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I studied for, like I said, the

CompTIA, Security Plus and the CISSP.

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Those are the two things

that I went after.

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However, further education, you want to

learn API security, things like that.

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More than just the online

classes, there may be something

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you can actually take, right?

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You may be able to go to a conference

and go to some of the training sessions,

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and that would be further education.

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A little bit hard to do when you're

not actually working in the industry,

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unless you want to spend that money.

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But it's another way.

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It's another thing to put in your resume.

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It's another talking point and

it's something that's extremely.

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Number 12, seek mentorship in college.

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This could be a career counselor

or your instructor to figure

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out, Hey, are there different

internships, things where I should go.

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If it's in LinkedIn, you can actually

network with people, especially

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people that you've worked with.

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Certainly reach out to people in the

field and craft a message to tell them

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what it is that you're trying to do,

what it is that you're looking to do,

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and can they offer any tips and tricks.

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I've had people who I previously worked

with in the customer service area that

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really wanted to go into cyber security.

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They didn't do it while they were

working there, but they really liked it.

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And it just so happens that

I had some tips for them.

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Because I asked.

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And so it could be as simple as that.

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Seeking mentorship is a good thing.

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Cold calling, cold emailing,

cold LinkedIn reaching out.

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I don't really care for that myself.

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But if you do have someone who you've

connected with previously, and maybe

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one of those conferences seeking

mentorship, how you can improve

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yourself, what areas should I look at?

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How can I do things?

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Very valid.

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You should do it while you're

currently working, and you should

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also do it in your professional life.

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It's a little bit easier said than done.

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But seeking mentorship is

something you absolutely positively

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should spend your time doing.

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Tip number 13, volunteer opportunities.

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Is there something that you can

do in your community, friends, or

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family, to volunteer in the cyber

security field, in the information

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world, that can go on a resume?

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So if you went to public center and

you gave a presentation on password

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managers and why, what they are, why

you should use them, how you should

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use them, and then you helped people.

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Download one and configure them.

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And you made a training

video on that kind of thing.

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Do you think that doesn't

go in your resume?

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For rolling out a password manager

to, you know, a subset of 50

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people, 60 people, whatever?

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If you don't, you should put that down

because it is something that you do.

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Doing that is just as valid as doing

a 50 60 people at a private company.

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It's you doing a thing in the field for

a group of people training and learning.

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And educating them and then helping them

out, doing something in cyber security.

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If you do it for 50 people at your church

or 50 people at your company, you're still

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ruling out a password manager, you're

still explaining it to everybody, and

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you're still showing them how to do it.

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And it's valid, and if you don't put

it down as a talking point at least, or

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something on your resume, you're missing

out on a really large opportunity.

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And the last tip, and the best

tip, because nobody's going

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to make it to the end of this,

Is starting your own business.

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Meaning if you want to go from it and you

want to go to cybersecurity and you've

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got this gap in between where it's really

hard, you're using your transferable

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skills, you're volunteering, you're

doing everything that you possibly can.

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Starting your own business

allows you to pave your own path

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and it allows you to go and.

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Either offer those services to other

companies or other people for money or

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for free or whatever you want to do.

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You can create that page on LinkedIn.

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You've got your own business now where

you're doing these type of things.

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And you can start creating your

own avenues and your own pathways.

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into the field that you want to go into.

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And then maybe that business

will actually take off.

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And you realize that I

like doing small business.

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I like actually working for myself.

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And if it doesn't work out, the easy

talking point is I tried to do my

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own business and I realized it was

a little bit harder than I thought.

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And I really like working with people

in sort of an organization where things

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are a little bit more managed and that's

an easy transfer into cybersecurity.

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So you can go from it, you

have cybersecurity over here.

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And you don't know where to get into

that middle, start your own business.

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Does that mean you have to start

an LLC or drop a ton of money?

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It means you find a name, you find a

logo, you find an about, you put that on

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LinkedIn, you start your own business,

and you start doing things in the

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business capacity to create your own

experience that goes on a resume, because

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it's your own business, and fills in

any gaps that you may or may not have.

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And that is a tip.

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Hardly anybody is going to give

you is starting your own business.

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Because when you do that, you'll be

able to do a heck of a lot more stuff.

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Then you would in any other capacity

because you're doing it for yourself in

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a business capacity and you're creating

those things So starting your own business

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if you haven't thought about it, you

really should think about it So with a

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combination of these strategies, you can

really build a robust resume and gain a

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lot of valuable experience Even if you

haven't had any Direct experience into the

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cyber security world, it is very possible

to go from an IT world into cyber security

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by using some of these tips and tricks

and building your own pathway into that.

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I would have to say the ones that I found

to be most important were networking, the

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industry certifications, starting my own

business and taking those transferable

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skills and connecting the dots.

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Marc David is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and the host of the cybersecurity podcast, Byte-Sized Security. He has over 15 years of experience in the information security field, specializing in network security, cloud security, and security awareness training. Marc is an engaging speaker and teacher with a passion for demystifying complex security topics. He got his start in security as a software developer for encrypted messaging platforms. Over his career, Marc has held security leadership roles at tech companies like Radius Networks and Vanco Payment Solutions. He now runs his own cybersecurity consulting and training firm helping businesses and individuals implement practical security controls. When he’s not hosting his popular security podcast, you can find Marc speaking at industry conferences or volunteering to teach kids cyber safety. Marc lives with his family outside of Boston where he also enjoys running, reading, and hiking.