Guides

There is no separate magazine of how-to guides. Use the careers methods to get in or move up: a posting decoder, a local-pay lookup, an earn-more page, a $0 public-training sequence, a work-environment page, and two getting-started pages.

This week: open how to read a job posting. Getting in starts at getting into IT or how to start a cybersecurity career. Moving up starts at moving into cybersecurity from IT or management and lead roles.

• How to read a job posting — title to SOC to the next cluster page.
• How to look up local pay — CareerOneStop Salary Finder for a state or metro.
• Earn more with online courses and certifications — filters vs occupation change.
• Find free and public training — government and public tools when you cannot pay a bootcamp.
• Hours, shifts, and where the work happens — handbook hours, on-call, and setting.
• Getting into IT — three first jobs and three education sentences.
• How to start a cybersecurity career — start from the situation you are actually in.
• How we compare — live forks, plus the five-question habit.

Sources

• Occupational Outlook Handbook — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. National duties, education, pay, and outlook the method pages point to.
• Salary Finder — CareerOneStop. Place wages.
• American Job Center Finder — CareerOneStop. Local help for public training.