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Resume Tips or Strategies:

Include: relevant honors, research, professional organization involvement, technical skills, school projects, publications, volunteer work, and experience
If you have a security clearance, list it
Only list relevant coursework for the position, not all of your classes
Categorize your technical competencies (security, reverse engineering, networking, operating systems, etc)
Showcase your learning and abilities in your experience section
Include key words to get you past the tracking system, such as C++ or java

Job Title	Median Salary	Outlook
Computer and Information Research Scientists	$108,360	+11% (faster than average)
Computer and Information Systems Managers	$127,640	+15% (faster than average)
Software Developers	$97,990	+17% (faster than average)
Computer Hardware Engineers	$108,430	+3% (slower than average)
Computer Programmers	$77,550	-8%
Computer Network Architects	$98,430	+9% (faster than average)
Information Security Analysts	$88,890	+18% (faster than average)
Computer Systems Analysts	$82,710	+21% (faster than average)
Network and Computer Systems Administrators	$75,790	+8% (average)
Database Administrators	$80,280	+11% (faster than average)
Web Developers	$63,490	+27% (faster than average)
Computer Support Specialists	$50,380	+12% (faster than average)

Career Resources for Cyber Systems Majors:

Job/Internship Strategies Specific to Major or Field

What are your daily news checks?
What do you have on your home network?
How would traceroute help you find out where a breakdown in communication is?
What’s the difference between Symmetric and Asymmetric encryption?
How would you find out what a POST code means?
What is XSS?
What are the three ways to authenticate a person?
What is an easy way to configure a network to allow only a single computer to login on a particular jack?
You are remoted in to a headless system in a remote area. You have no physical access to the hardware and you need to perform an OS installation. What do you do?
You find out that there is an active problem on your network. You can fix it, but it is out of your jurisdiction. What do you do?
What is worse in Firewall Detection, a false negative or a false positive? And why?
What is the difference between Information Protection and Information Assurance?
What is the difference between closed-source and open-source? Which is better?
Why are internal threats oftentimes more successful than external threats?

Information Technology

Have you planned and implemented additions and significant modifications to your company’s IT infrastructure? Describe your contribution
Tell us about any procedures you have implemented to improve network security or in other areas.
What IT tracking software have you used to monitor/maintain remote systems?
Describe your methods used to build and maintain subcontractor and vendors relationships and to manage the purchase of hardware and software products.
Have you developed a disaster recovery/alternative plan to ensure continuous availability of computer systems throughout the Corporation?
Have you developed an IT security policy?
Have you been responsible for the budget of the IT systems of the company? Tell us how you monitored costs, business plan and cash flow.
How do you keep yourself updated with technology, considering that technology today is enhanced almost every day?
You’ve just been assigned to a project involving a new technology. How would you get started?
What technology-related blogs, podcasts, tweets or websites do you follow? Do you share any information yourself online?
What are your favorite and least favorite technology products, and why?
How do you set up the VPN on a laptop for a new employee?
What are the restrictions of domain name?
What types of accuracy checks do you enact when you are coding?
What usually indicates that your virtual user script has dynamic data that is dependent on you parameterized fields?

Job/internship strategies specific to major or field

How to Get Involved:

Consider earning a minor in math since computer sciences involve a lot of math, pursuing a double major can help specialize you in a specific field.
Obtain vendor specific or networking certifications.
Attend Web Conferences to learn more/stay up to date on the field.