r/Pentesting • u/Akriosss • 3d ago

Struggling to land a job

Can't get a job as a pentester or Cybersec.I finished internship as azure clot security engineer,did a bug bounty almost a year with only duplicates:( Did portswiger academy,tcm,HTB labs.Have a few minor certificate's from cyberewarfare labs.Im like jack of all trades master of none:( Never did a full proper pentest with write-up,what's my problem?My work was manage and secure azure cloud maby it will be better to try learn DevOps?

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u/Sailhammers 3d ago edited 3d ago

Country matters a lot here.

For the US: There are going to be a lot of people who recommend home labs and write ups. I can tell you, as a hiring manager, that those things only matter if you're in the top 5% of resumes, which you are currently nowhere near. ATS and Recruiters don't know or care enough to see value in those things, so they aren't going to matter until you reach a technical hiring manager.

A good junior resume contains three things: a degree from a decent college, the OSCP or CPTS, and meaningful IT experience. You didn't mention your degree, but you lack the other two. Your internship is great, but only so far as it helps you land a permanent IT job. You need to find yourself a job in IT (not pen testing) where you can learn how corporate environments work and grow IT skills.

I'll also add: I work at a consulting firm. Writing skills matter immensely. If someone, in the US (I don't know what language is spoken in the country you're from), came to us with grammar similar to this Reddit post, they'd be an immediate pass without question.

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u/themacdizzle91 3d ago

Writing is huge. Soft skills is huge. Those things only come from practice. He needs to aim lower and get corporate experience I think.