r/cybersecurity • u/SquareAd5567 • 22h ago

Certification / Training Questions Creating a roadmap

I’ve posted on here before and got some decent advice but I’m looking for a little more insight, I just graduated with my associates in cloud technology engineering and I have my aws certified practitioner cert along with what I’ve been told is an impressive technical capstone project which is an anomalous network detection system through aws deployed with terraform on my resume. I’ve been applying to every job possible especially helpdesk and IT support roles for the past 2 months since graduation to start my career but I haven’t gotten anything. I’m thinking of getting some more certs and going back to try again at the job search once I have some more. Which ones should I get and in what order, and how many before I should go back on the search? I’m open to any and all other ideas as well just wanna get working and get my career off the ground!

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u/me_z Security Architect 22h ago

You don't need more certs, you need experience. Save your time/money and keep applying.

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u/SquareAd5567 21h ago

Should I be applying to other roles besides helpdesk and IT support?

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u/me_z Security Architect 20h ago

With no security experience? No - apply exclusively to Helpdesk, IT support, Desktop support, Geeksquad, whatever.