I Hated My Job, So I Upskilled in Cybersecurity
44sRelatable career frustration and the promise of a 100% salary hike create a compelling hook for professionals seeking a change.
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A cybersecurity professional shares their journey of transitioning from a non-security role into the field, crediting a master's course from Simplilearn for providing foundational knowledge and career clarity. The video highlights how structured training helped them identify a specific career path and achieve a significant salary increase.
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[00:02]
Initial Career Challenge
After two years in a job, the speaker realized they lacked a way to demonstrate their cybersecurity skills, prompting a need to upskill.
[00:17]
Discovering Simplilearn
While searching for a CompTIA Security+ certification, the speaker found Simplilearn and was contacted about a master's course in cybersecurity that included the desired certification and CEH certification.
[00:46]
Course Benefits
The course provided live training from instructors in Bangalore and helped the speaker gain a strong grasp of cybersecurity basics, which was especially useful for someone shifting from a different domain like development or QA.
[01:12]
Expanded Understanding
The course revealed the breadth of cybersecurity fields, including malware analysis and network security, helping the speaker narrow down specific roles they wanted to pursue instead of applying broadly.
[01:52]
Career Outcome
With a solid foundation, the speaker found interviews easier, successfully transitioned into vulnerability management, and achieved a 100% hike in their new role.
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💡 Key Takeaways
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Upskilling Trigger
Highlights the common pain point of professionals needing to prove skills when transitioning domains.
00:17
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Breadth of Cybersecurity
Demonstrates that cybersecurity is more than penetration testing, which is a key educational takeaway.
01:12
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Career Clarity and Salary Impact
Shows a concrete outcome of structured learning: targeted job search and a 100% salary increase.
01:52Full Transcript
[00:02] story studying cyber security from long back it has been my interest but uh when I came to the real world after like uh 2 years in my uh job so I did not know how like I can show the skills of myself like I did not have any way so that was
[00:17] when I realized that I need to upskill it's a funny story I started by looking for a certification for Compia security plus I uh stumbled upon the simply learn website so after like Ih looked through the website and I got a call from
[00:31] explained to me like the course they had on masters on cyber security which was providing me the certificate I was looking for and even the next the CE certification and all. So that was when I like thought like if I'm getting this
[00:46] much and I'm getting a lot of uh uh trainings and they were telling from triple IT Bangalore and all teachers will be training in live sessions. So I saw like it was a plus point so I took the course. I would say the course has
[00:59] uh benefited me a lot in uh gaining an understanding of the basics in cyber security. So when like someone is shifting from a role which is totally a different domain like development or QA and they're shifting to security. So
[01:12] doing this course I would say helps a lot because uh it uh gives a very uh good grasp like you'll have a very good grasp of the basics once you do it. Before the course I thought it's just cyber security penetration like hackers
[01:26] and all just done but after the course I got to know like what all different fields are there in cyber security. There's malware analysis and uh uh VAP There's malware analysis and uh uh VAP network security. So in that way like
[01:39] they helped a lot in helping me understand like what type of role I want to apply for after that because before that I was just spraying in all types of roles but now I knew specifically what I wanted and uh where should I go and as I
[01:52] had the good grasps of basics the interviews were pretty uh easy for me thanks to simply learn I built a strong foundation successfully transitioned into vulnerability management and achieved a 100% hike in my new role
