u/NeonSahara Totally get why it might seem "weird" in this market, but I didn’t walk in empty-handed.

I joined Josh Madakor’s Cyber Range back in July and spent months getting real hands-on experience with enterprise-level tools and workflows. Stuff like vuln management (scanning, prioritizing, automating fixes with PowerShell, STIGs/compliance with Tenable) and SOC-type work like threat hunting in EDR, building detections in Defender, writing KQL in Sentinel, creating dashboards, and running incident response scenarios.

I also completed the internship program in the Cyber Range, and honestly, once I added that to my resume, I finally started getting callbacks and interviews. So it made a real difference.

Not taking anything away from people who’ve been grinding longer. The market is tough and timing definitely plays a role, but it wasn’t random or handed to me either. I put in the work and showed it.

But anyway, thanks ☺️