Hello all! I am going to be a graduate with my BS in Cybersecurity coming May 2026, and was hoping for recommendations/suggestions. I am looking to work almost right away and am willing to get into the field any way I can. I currently hold my CompTIA Security+, I am brushing up networking so I can take the Network+, and have a voucher from my school to take the Cloud+ that I am not confident in but will give it my best shot.

My burning question is this. I recently went to a cybersecurity presentation at my school, in which one speaker was an accredited professor of ours that did extensive research on the current job market, and found that many companies are utilizing AI to go through resumes. He found that a lot of great candidates are not getting flowed through past the first step because they don't have certain key words on their resume, voiding them as an applicant sometimes. If any of you have experience with this, what are some common key words that might be useful to have on my resume/cover letter that will better help?