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UWashingtonX: Finding Your Cybersecurity Career Path

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Learn about different career pathways in cybersecurity and complete a self-assessment project to better understand the right path for you.

Finding Your Cybersecurity Career Path
6 weeks
2–5 hours per week
Self-paced
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Finding Your Cybersecurity Career Path

About this course

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In this course, you will focus on the pathways to cybersecurity career success. You will determine your own incoming skills, talent, and deep interests to apply toward a meaningful and informed exploration of 32 Digital Pathways of Cybersecurity.

You will complete a self-assessment comprised of elements needed to determine essential next steps on your career path.

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  • Language: English
  • Video Transcript: English
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  • Associated skills:Cyber Security

What you'll learn

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By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Understand a multitude of cybersecurity career path opportunities
  • Apply problem-solving skills toward self-evaluation of compatibility with career pathways
  • Narrow your exploration to the most compatible job path(s) in cybersecurity
  • Assess knowledge, skills, and abilities in relation to the specific (and emerging) requirements for those paths
  • Discover and identify training and other next steps needed to satisfy requirements and meet goals in cybersecurity pathways

This course is part of Essentials of Cybersecurity Professional Certificate Program

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4 skill-building courses
Self-paced
Progress at your own speed
6 months
2 - 5 hours per week

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