So especially for people who are just starting along those lines, but don't have the wherewithal
to get a cert at the moment, what are some other ways that you can present yourself as
someone who is passionate and interested on a resume when you're looking for your first
job like that? What are some projects, or hands-on things, or freelance things that
you should do that will show people, “I’m just getting started, but I have the goods.”
Yeah. I think the storytelling of a resume is very good in a very short manner, because
we're only reading the first half a page. If you can get us past the first half of the
page, that’s really interesting. Almost explaining some of your technical knowledge
without writing it down into technical expression.
I always love those resumes, they jump out at me when I read them and say, “Oh, this
guy has talked about how he's used powershell to download a payload from the Internet and
load it into register into protected memory.” That's going to blow up. Now don't just go
and write that on your resume, because they're going to ask you what that means.
Right. Oh, yeah. Be ready to show your homework.
Yeah. We have a really long interview process. Our interview process, depending on what position
you're in, typically is about 16 hours. We're going to give you homework and we're to say,
“Come back and we're going to ask you questions. We're going to ask you standard IT questions
and we're going to give you things to learn and see how well you learn them and see how
well you understand them, both from a sales engineer point of view and an engineer point
of view.” We have a really long interview process.
That's how we weed out the good from the bad. It keeps us having to keep our staff in there
below, because it means before we hire them, we know that this is the person. He's the
right person and it's going to deliver for us. Not every company is the same. Some of
the bigger organizations, they're just looking at your college education, they're checking
boxes.
From our point of view, we do look at certifications. It may get your resume a little bit of the
pile. Getting a good resume, talking about something on there that makes me read it twice,
or makes our CRO read it twice, it's always going to make you move forward. Not just on
the resume, but when you send that resume in, if you send it through a LinkedIn, and
if you can link in to CEOs and COOs and head of security, that's a great thing to do. Just
post content all the time and it gets our attention. Because we're ultimately looking
for the easiest people we can bring into the position with the least amount of effort.
Yeah. I mean, LinkedIn is is one of those things that for a lot of people is this background
joke of, “Oh, join my LinkedIn page. It'll be hilarious, or whatever.” Yeah, it's worth
noting, especially high-level people are reading their feeds and they're really looking at
people who are bringing interesting things to the table. Is that what you're saying basically?
Absolutely, because I can see more about you not from your profile on LinkedIn, but what
you post. Bear in mind, that means don’t post anything dumb.
Yeah, and don't just be a sheer monster. Yeah.
Yeah. Post really good explanatory explanations on things. If you do reach out to people and
it's a great way for people to reach out to us. A lot of the resumes, we get through LinkedIn.
If you do reach out to someone, reach out with something that means something. Not just,
“Hi, please look at my resume.” Because everyone's saying that same sentence.
Yeah, build a relationship a little bit.
Yeah. If you can maybe read your sentence, it's worth doing.
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