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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."
I have to agree. I would have worked for Raytheon if they were interested in me as I have all the required study and would work initially for cheap, but they have basically said f*** o** to me in the past with no response. How am I supposed to now be interested in working for a company that only seems to want people with existing experience as well as skills? Sounds like they want to avoid training anybody and have poor HR people, do little advertising at universities, and cry like babies when they "can't find anybody."
former raytheon employee here; nobody who know anything about cybersecurity wants to work for them. The RayCERT is a joke. Raytheon has one very young and extremely unqualified person in charge of cybersecurity. How did he get his job? He was born to a Raytheon family. Nepotism rules that organization more than any Japanese Keiretsu or Korean Chaebol. Then you have people who treat computers as "those new fangled dohickies" in charge of IT security. My supervisor considered anybody born after 1959 a millenial. That doesn't even begin to address the turf war between the IT security and industrial security types that leaves a lot of stepping on each other toes in some areas and huge holes in coverage in others. In short, nobody who know anything about Raytheon and cybersecurity wants to work for Raytheon cybersecurity.