#Suggestions on projects to work on that look great on resumes

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compact shell
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I've been... really bored recently. As part of that, I've been looking for ways to add some experience with work. I'm just curious on what some people have done as work that they put on their resume.

topaz token
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From a cyberesecurity perspective, self study on platforms like tryhackme, hackthebox, and pwncollege, and participation in CTFs

compact shell
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oh I've been doing that (i love ctfs!)

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I just am a bit unsure of what you do to put those on resumes

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like "huh sure I have 2460340694035 flags captured, does that even look neat to a recruiter"

compact shell
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"Participated in this ctf, excercising skills in x, y, and z to collect flags and finish in the top n% of participants" (last part optional)

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generally if ur going for entry level cyber what they're looking for is that you're learning and exercising skills in safe ways (aka not hacking any random website)

compact shell
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alright, thank you!!!

hazy field
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I have found a project you’re passionate about is the most important, it will be easier to work on it often and recruiters want to hear you truly passion about coding something to show you aren’t miserable and in it just for money

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But also ai and ml is big keywords currently, try to do some project that gets those words in

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you don't have to do that if you don't want to, those words are nowhere on my resume and i have a 6fig job lol

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the ai/ml thing that is

hazy field
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I did algo trading stocks as one of my big ones, used ai for analysis, used apis to scape data and then trade in a paper account. Never did well but people liked hearing I was interested in it, I ended up working in fintech

proud light
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Personal projects have the huge advantage of being able to be posted on the internet so an interviewer can actually see work samples, I can only talk about work projects from a high level, and I can’t prove what I actually did.

As an interviewer, I am always drawn to weird or self-motivated projects. Find something that you are going to work on enough to get it to some sort of finished state. 1 finished project is worth 5 partially complete or just started ones.

If the project can demo on a website even better (this can be so many projects, even GPU or native code via WASM). Something the interview can play with while you are talking about it makes it a much more tactile and memorable.

fading bough
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My company filters out candidates by their github profile in many cases.

I'm a dropout, but my personal projects were able to get me several interviews and offers.

glad fable