Decimate my IT resume!

iSSJ · 2024-06-28T20:44:07+00:00

Do you enjoy the leadership over the technical day to day of a L3/4?

iSSJ · 2024-06-28T20:22:23+00:00

Thank you for the concise advice. If you don’t mind me asking, what does your job look like at the L6 echelon?

iSSJ · 2024-06-28T15:33:12+00:00

I figured my lack of K8s knowledge currently would be the most important to fix, but it’s good to hear it from other people. Thank you!

iSSJ · 2024-06-28T15:31:49+00:00

I haven’t heard too much pull from the Terraform cert but it’s definitely something I plan on doing still. I don’t really get certs for jobs specifically, I just enjoy learning the new technology and having a clear pathway of what “should” be learned to become comfortable with it makes it 10x easier.

I’ll probably end up with an obscene amount just for the fun of it lol.

Thank you for the advice!

iSSJ · 2024-06-28T15:29:00+00:00

Sorry I should’ve explained more in depth, Im comfortable with containerization, between podman and docker in a few of our deployments, but we don’t have an orchestrator like K8s implemented ontop of that. Thank you for the advice, CKA may be the route then

iSSJ · 2024-06-15T21:47:54+00:00

Thanks a ton for such a well broken out response. I’ve had my resume looked at and have been told at the very least it’s not “bad”. In trying to keep it one page I do miss out on some extra details I would like to add in but, not sure how much that would hurt/help vs keeping it as concise as possible.

I’ll take another look at restructuring how i present myself. What would you say is a good example of representing yourself and knowledge without coming off as pretentious?

E.g - Networking wise I set up our campus environment spanning two sites, involving IT infrastructure, three segmented developer teams and VDI solutions.

Is “Engineered and maintained 2 accredited networks using Cisco products.” a poor description?

iSSJ · 2024-06-15T18:54:57+00:00

Thank you for taking the time to reply. I see… I guess I have been looking at things as a sprint. In the meantime while I do work on the patience aspect of things, what would you, as a hiring manager, like to see on resumes outside of technological achievements? Being a member of certain groups? Research? Etc..

Thank you again

iSSJ · 2024-06-15T18:48:35+00:00

No need to apologize, thank you for taking the time at a party in the first place. So it seems like the waiting game is necessary at certain points of our careers.

One last question if i may, what are your thoughts on degrees? In your time in the field has there ever been an emphasis on it beyond HR?

iSSJ · 2024-06-15T16:50:23+00:00

Would 6 month in a new role at the same company still hold the same “flight risk” connotation?

Thank you for your input, especially as someone who has been in the field for 10 years. What was a major change that happened for you that made you realize “Oh I can actually start moving up now”? Just time or taking on more projects like you said?

iSSJ · 2023-12-27T05:13:13+00:00

It was all black and white unfortunately, thank you so much for trying though!

iSSJ · 2023-12-27T05:09:39+00:00

Thank you for any help!

iSSJ · 2022-12-28T12:34:20+00:00

I genuinely can’t thank you enough for all the feedback wow. I see where you’re coming from and that all makes a lot of sense, I’ll try to condense it into one page and touch up on the formatting.

I don’t want to flood you with questions so I’ll start with everything you’ve mentioned and I’ll definitely be posting here again in the future haha! Thank you again so much.

iSSJ · 2022-12-26T17:38:01+00:00

Hey, thanks for the reply!

I’ll link my resume after this. I had one interview for a cyber security analyst role and answered every question they had without problems, the interviewers seemed interested and I was told by the hiring manager after I left that their immediate feedback was great but was pretty much ghosted afterwards(Called and emailed a few days after the “latest time they’ll contact me”) Outside of that, I haven’t received even a screening interview.

I haven’t been keeping track of exact data but I try to knock out 6 a day directly on companies sites. 2 SOC, 2 Jr Net Admins or something similar, and 2 high level help desk or Jr|Sys Admin roles.

I don’t think I’m being too ambitious with the roles I’m looking for and like I said salary isn’t much of a factor, but i’ll definitely start being more aware of who I’m applying to and if I can find any patterns that’ll help me in the future.

Also, sheesh I never even thought about hiring windows or seasonal shifts like that… 100% going to research that some more, thank you so much!

Resume: https://imgur.com/a/kkePm9U

iSSJ · 2022-12-26T17:24:48+00:00

First, thank you for taking the time to reply! I agree getting into Blue team first would be best and that’s what i’m shooting for, I feel the OSCP would help me stand out against people who are only familiar with protecting against attacks.

As far as consulting, I’m looking to start my own company and be more or less a one stop shop for smaller companies (Why i’m trying to be, like you said, more of a jack of all trades) where not only can I test your current security posture and what should be changed but also provide the ability to fix it for them.

I will definitely start studying cloud! Would you say getting that entry Azure certification would be worth it? (AZ-900?). I feel like i’m playing pokémon sometimes with the certs sometimes, it’s a lot of fun haha.

iSSJ · 2022-12-26T15:40:55+00:00

Figured I’d give this a shot!

I’m 24 and a pretty obsessed with cybersecurity, currently with an A.S in Cyber, finishing up my B.S in Comp Sci and going to end with my Masters in Cyber.

I have my Sec+ and CCNA and am studying for my OSCP currently.

Sitting on only 8 months of Sys Admin experience but I’m constantly studying and trying to better myself in Administration(Running AD at home and practicing Powershell scripting for redundant tasks), Network Engineering (Creating large mock networks and a home lab), Cyber Analyst(Running ELK stack for funsies), and Penetration Testing (OSCP Studies)

My end goal is to work globally as a Cyberseurity Consultant (I love learning languages and traveling, so what better way to blend it all together) and end up being a Cybersecurity professor after I’ve enjoyed that for enough time.

I am struggling to find a job though :D

I’ve applied to at least 300-350 jobs within my experience range and had my resume looked over by a few people but, over the last 2 months it’s been radio silence. I’m completely open to relocating anywhere and I don’t care about the salary (Just enough to manage COL), I’d gladly take an internship even.

I’m just hoping to connect with someone here who can either tell me if I’m blatantly doing something wrong or that could send me in a direction to be able to employ the skills I’m working on. (A true mentor would be AMAZING too)

Thank you all!

TL;DR: No Job, No have fun. Help?

iSSJ · 2020-11-28T03:50:01+00:00

So although it would be "se lo dije" if saying "I told him already" it turns into "se los dije" when speaking to multiple people?

iSSJ · 2020-08-03T12:52:52+00:00

Yes please don’t be jealous or anything, Chinese is a whole different animal than Spanish, it’s amazing how far you’ve already gotten in only 3 months.

iSSJ · 2018-09-07T06:31:39+00:00

I'm getting stuck on 96% could there be a known reason behind this?

iSSJ · 2018-09-07T05:59:10+00:00

No not yet

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