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| Source |  AlienVault Blog |
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| Identifiant | 453446 |
| Date de publication | 2017-12-20 14:00:00 (vue: 2017-12-20 14:00:00) |
| Titre | Building Personal Brand: From One InfoSec Student to Another |
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Finding employment opportunities as a student is challenging, this is no new fact. Students are consistently facing troubles with seeking internships and co-op opportunities. I myself am a student, and I have found a solution that has been seemingly effective for career development thus far: personal branding. Personal branding helps students compensate for the work experience that we just haven’t had the opportunity of pursuing yet.
Personal branding includes building a personal “brand” that people associate you with. You probably have already started developing your own personal brand with personalized resumes and cover letters. These are essentials that our teachers always told us that we need growing up, and this is true; however, it is 2017, and with more students than ever before, the job market has become very competitive. The opportunities to find internships while an undergrad are still very much existent. We are going to take a look at what you can do to break away from the job searching norms by building your personal brand.
Personal brand plays a key role in developing your identity of an aspiring security professional. This article will help guide you to become the nontraditional student that you need to be to land interesting interviews.
The pitch.
“Could you tell me a bit about yourself?”
Be prepared to respond to this question comfortably at a moment’s notice. Know what your personal selling features are, and strut your achievements proudly and passionately, but not arrogantly. Knowing what to say in “elevator talk” situations allows us to network on-the-fly at any given moment.
The resume.
It is an obvious expectation of any serious employer that your resume looks good. Your resume will act as a professional summary of your identity, and employers will profile you accordingly. Dedicate some of your efforts to ensuring that your resume effectively and professionally reflects your skillset, goals, past experiences, and projects. Keep your resume up-to-date, and actively rework it when you can.
The business card.
Some people may consider a contact card as overkill, especially for students, but I disagree. The need for us to differentiate ourselves as students are becoming increasingly necessary, proportionate to the number of students being pumped out by academia and other routes for job-seekers to educate themselves.
I printed some contact cards using VistaPrint for my first few conferences (DEF CON, Black Hat USA, and HackFest), and I have received only positive feedback; in fact, the CEO of the cybersecurity firm that I will be interning at in May was impressed, responding “Wow, this kid has a business card? He’s serious.”
The act of handing someone a contact card alone |
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