Accepeted a Security Engineer positon with an information security company

Over the past 2 months, I have been offered 3 positions (computer forensic consultant, technical support engineer, and security engineer). Once I put on my resume that I would be graduating with my Bachelors of Science at the end of the spring semester, I started getting hits non-stop. So to answer the popular question "Do I need a bachelors?", it sure as hell helps, and the last two months have confirmed that.

I picked the Security Engineer position because I felt I could learn the most at this position, grow with the company, good pay, and awesome benefits (sounds good, right?). The entails maintaining, monitoring, and deploying firewalls,IDS, IPS, VPN, etc... From glassdoor.com, I thought I was going to make about the same as I do now but I was pleasantly surprised when they actually said the number.

Moving to the IT field 14-15 months ago has been the best decision I have ever made, plus the 140% salary increase over that span is awesome as well.

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networker050184

Congrats and good luck!

wiseguy

Congratulations, all your hard work paid off!

f0rgiv3n

Wow that's amazing that you got that many hits! I'm kind of jealous because nothing like that happened to me when i got my bachelors

. Did you do anything out of the ordinary when you were looking for jobs? Was it just that you added to your resume that you were graduating with you bachelor's, or did you post your resume to any online "headhunter" sites?

YuckTheFankees

All I did was update my resume on Linkedin and Indeed, and the companies started emailing/calling.

N2IT

Congratz on the new position!

kriscamaro68

Congrats on the move up the ladder. Glad to see things working out for you.

networker050184

YuckTheFankees wrote: »

All I did was update my resume on Linkedin and Indeed, and the companies started emailing/calling.

Not to doubt your degree had anything to do with it, but anytime you update your resume on the job boards, or just reload it unchanged for that matter, a flux of hits come in. It's because the date on it is more recent. There are people scanning them every day!

YuckTheFankees

networker,

That could definitely be it, but whatever it is, I'm glad I was being noticed.

N2IT

@ Networker that is exactly right, not that you needed me to tell you that. I refresh every monday and just get a ton of opportunities rolling in. Some are trash, a lot are actually, but there are some nice ones. Right now I have a financial analyst position and a project management position sitting on hold. Both interviewed for and discussing with my wife.

There could be more so I may have to wait a tad bit longer

Master Of Puppets

Congrats and best of luck!

danstar

Congratulations and Good-luck bro. See, hard work pays off.

docrice

If your new job is anything like mine, you'll be busy. Non-stop. Your brain will explode. Things will speed up around you. The avalanche that used to be in the distance will find itself at your doorstep. The amount of minutia will become overwhelming. The leaky faucets will frustrate and taunt you. The blips on the radar outside the castle will always be watching inward.

And it will be glorious.

coreyb80

Congrats!