The Cybersecurity Industry Is Hiring, But Young People Aren't Interested

Daniel_Stuckey writes "Cybersecurity, as an industry, is booming. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, jobs as network systems and information security professionals are expected to grow by 53 percent through 2018. Yet, young people today aren't interested in getting jobs in cybersecurity. By all accounts it's a growing and potentially secure, lucrative job. But according to a new survey by the defense tech company Raytheon, only 24 percent of millennials have any interest in cybersecurity as a career."

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Cyber this, Cyber that....

[rts008]

Or maybe, just MAYBE, they are afraid of being lumped in with the clueless bunch that are brandishing the term 'cyber' for everything, like it was some demented talisman to ward against evil net spirits.

I mean everybody knows that a 'CyberSecurity Specialist' is only a small and mostly accidental step away from a 'CyberBully', or 'CyberTerrorist', or OMG!!! Cyborg!!!

"Why yes, I'm a Terminator for the NSA, DHS, and in my spare time, the FBI and CIA! I'm a hit at all the parties!"

Re:only 24 percent of millennials have any interes

[Hognoxious]

Think of when you were in class - if a quarter of the whole class were interested in one career.

Pretty even split between train drivers and astronauts.

That's the boys, obviously. I have no idea about the girls and they have cooties anyway.

Re:hire me

[Anonymous Coward]

If they are having labor shortages they need to hire more Chinese H1Bs.

Re:millenials

[Sockatume]

Referring to them as "young adults" would force people from older generations to engage with the fact that they've aged out of their role as the dominant cultural and economic force. It would tie with the enormous cottage industry in writing editorials about how my generation is going to ruin the planet, at any rate.

Maybe they just don't want to work at Raytheon

[daboochmeister]

Oh, snap!