OK, so in the last lecture, I gave you an overview and a tip of the iceberg for taste of the goodness
I have in store for you.
But before we get into the meat and potatoes of this course, I need to quickly address a few questions
you might have.
All right.
So just get right down to it.
The first question you might have is this will this course
help me pass that pathway?
It's a good question.
By passing mean the OSCE certification or the certified ethical hacker at the security plus the Sands,
Japan or G.
Expen.
You know, will this course help me pass X?
And this is a kind of a nuanced answer is what I can give, because on the one hand, you know, there's
a lot of material in this course that can prepare you to pass a cybersecurity exam.
Right.
On the other hand, I didn't design this course to help you pass a specific exam.
Yes, there is a great deal of overlap between the content being taught here and the content inside
of a cybersecurity certification course.
But you shouldn't treat the material in this course as a replacement for the OCP or a replacement for
the security plus or anything like that.
Just think of it like a supplement, something that's going to help make your transition into a specific
exam frictionless.
Right.
Which just trying to move you from one place to the next and try to move you from a place.
Of zero to little knowledge.
Over.
To a place with a really pretty good understanding of the cybersecurity concepts here, so we're making
that jump.
Now, the second question you might have, which I think is equally as relevant, is will this cause?
Will this cause?
Me land.
In cybersecurity, right, and the answer to that is also yes or no, right, because there's a couple
of different things need to have in mind.
Let me clear the screen off and kind of explain why I'm giving you a yes no answer to this.
So let's go up here.
Whenever you're, you know, interviewing, you're about to interview.
There's more than just technical acumen, right?
Technical acumen isn't the sole hiring criteria by an organization or a company or firm.
Right.
There's other skills that you need in order to secure that job.
You need confidence.
Or at least the perception of confidence, you need to know how to compose yourself.
That's in person when they meet you and also on paper when they read your resume, so resume how to
write a kickass resume, how to create a kickass, you know, LinkedIn page.
Everybody's going to look their.
And LinkedIn profile need to know, you know, how to market yourself.
How to answer the question, tell me about yourself, right?
Of course, you just don't want to dig into talking about yourself.
You want to talk about where you want to go and why you care specifically about this particular company.
Then you want to sort of tell the narrative of your history and how you got here and and there's a whole
process to it.
But this isn't a course of interviews.
But as you can see, there are several things you need to have in place.
You need to know how to, you know, negotiate your salary.
One of the things that I strongly recommend is that you have a certification already, so you have your
OCB, you have your security, plus, you know, you have S.H. before you interview.
Why?
Because this will help your resume get more attention.
Right.
It will increase your chances of landing a high paying job in cyber.
So those are the things I just wanted to sort of get off the table.
And in the next lecture, we're going to well, I'm going to walk you through the GitHub resource that
accompanies this course.
It's a page that includes a bevy of resources which will help you not only excel in this course, but
it will actually help you well into your career and beyond.
So I just want to walk you through it, step you through this just GitHub page so you can get everything
you need to excel as a cybersecurity professional.
Right.
So I can see you in the next lecture.