National Cybersecurity Career Awareness Week

Expanding Your Cyber Career Horizons

Career Mobility can be easier with Experts to help, SynED is pleased to present a series of Webcasts to offer guidance to new graduates and career-changers as they traverse their career pathway to new and exciting opportunities.

Resources

Setting Yourself Up For Success Community Colleges Apprenticeships for Veterans Finding a Job and Evaluating a Job Offer Building Your Network Mentoring Setting Yourself Up For Success

Journeys map for career planning

– https://cyber-guild.org/home-page/journeys-career-mappingtool/

O*NET interest profiler

– https://www.mynextmove.org/explore/ip

LinkedIN and LinkedIN learning

– https://www.linkedin.com/learning

–https://www.linkedin.com/learning/rock-yourlinkedinprofile/connect-to-opportunity-with-linkedin

– https://university.linkedin.com/linkedin-for-students

Github – showcase you projects

– https://github.com

Word Clouds

– https://tagcrowd.com

Community Colleges

Industry Recognized Certification Programs

– https://www.comptia.org/home

– https://www.sans.org

– https://www.eccouncil.org/programs/

– https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/training-events/trainingcertifications/certifications

Understanding Soft-Skills

– https://www.ispringsolutions.com/blog/soft-skills-training

Financial AID

– https://www.cccco.edu/About-Us/ChancellorsOffice/Divisions/Communications-and-Marketing/NovelCoronavirus/students/financial-aid

-https://icanaffordcollege.com

– https://www.cccapply.org/en/money

Apprenticeships for Veterans

US VALOR Program

– https://www.usvalor.org/

Federal Information

– https://www.careeronestop.org/Veterans/BackToSchool/enter-an-apprenticeship.aspx

– https://www.apprenticeship.gov/service-members-andveterans

Financial AID

– https://www.va.gov/education/about-gi-bill-benefits/how-tousebenefits/on-the-job-training-apprenticeships/

Finding a Job and Evaluating a Job Offer

Places to research and learn

– https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/career-development

– https://www.vault.com

–https://www.glassdoor.com/index.htm

– https://www.linkedin.com/learning/topics/career-development-5

– https://www.linkedin.com

– https://syned.org/career-strategist-coaching-program/

Building Your Network

Places to research and learn:

– https://www.comptia.org/content/it-careers-path-roadmap

– https://discord.com/invite/NTzRvmF 

– https://www.cyberseek.org

– https://niccs.cisa.gov/workforce-development/cyber-securityworkforceframework

Tips to remember:

• Join your local groups (ISACA, ISSA, others) 
• Tag others in your postings on Linkedin 
• If you meet someone virtually, be sure to connect on Linkedin with a short message 
• Sometimes it is not what you know, but who you know

Mentoring

Things to remember:

• Pay it forward

• When you have a group, engage them. Don’t go-it-alone!

• Connect with me on Linkedin:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidcumbow/

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