Name
Career Compass: Profession Profile Project
Navigating career options to direct your education journey.
Use the following career exploration websites to identify key information around a career
you are interested in:
MyNextMove.org Bureau of Labor Statistics (bls.gov/k12)
Career Title
Alternative/Similar
Job Titles
Career Description
What are the job responsibilities for this career? What activities might a typical day include?
Personal Skills Knowledge & Ability Skills Types of Classes
What personal skills (i.e. personality traits) After learning about what you will do for What courses or classes will be needed to
do you need for this job? this career, list the skills you will need? pursue this career?
Education Salary Technology
What level education is needed for this career? According to your research, what is What technology skills, software, and
the lowest salary outlook for this hardware knowledge is needed for this job?
q Highschool Degree career?
q Associates Degree
Average
q Bachelors Degree
q Masters Degree
q Doctorate
q Certification(s):
Low High
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Career Compass: Profession Profile Project
Navigating career options to direct your education journey.
Identified Companies
Visit a job posting site (such as Monster.com or Indeed.com) and identify at least three different companies that are looking for this career.
Requirements Salary
Company Name & Location Industry
(pick one that stood out) (if listed)
Local Job Search Industries
What does the job outlook look like within a 50 mile radius of your current What industries are hiring this career field?
location? 100 mile radius? How many jobs showed up during your search?
In Conclusion
Career Evaluation Final Thoughts
After reviewing job descriptions and various companies that offer Based on your research, would this be a career field or
this position, list pros and cons to this career. (Ex. Hours, salary, position you would consider? Why or why not?
work environment, education, travel, etc..)
Pros Cons
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Career Compass: Profession Profile Project
Navigating career options to direct your education journey.
Use the following career exploration websites to identify key information around a career
you are interested in:
MyNextMove.org Bureau of Labor Statistics (bls.gov/k12)
Career Title Cybersecurity Specialist
Alternative/Similar Information Security Officer, Information Technology Specialist, Information
Job Titles Systems Security Officer, Network Security Analysis
Career Description
What are the job responsibilities for this career? What activities might a typical day include?
The profession is responsible for planning, implementing, upgrading, and monitoring all security measures for
protecting data, networks, and other information. This job role would also be responsible for responding to
security breaches or viruses. So, in response, this job may be responsible for developing measures to protect
data, software, hardware, etc., including encrypting data, erecting firewalls, protecting confidential information
and file transfers. This role will continuously monitor systems to make sure all is protected and secure and
respond to any emergencies.
Personal Skills Knowledge & Ability Skills Types of Classes
What personal skills (i.e. personality traits) After learning about what you will do for What courses or classes will be needed to
do you need for this job? this career, list the skills you will need? pursue this career?
Attention to detail, ability to Engineering and technology • eDL Principles of IT 1a & 1b
listen to others, dependability, (computers & electronics), business • eDL Network Security
analytical thinking, cooperation, (management, customer service), Fundamentals 1a & 1b
adaptability, flexibility, integrity communication skills • eDL Operational Cybersecurity
1a & 1b
Ability to listen to others, strong
writing and verbal skills, reading & Certifications: iC3, Network+,
writing, problem solving, figuring CompTIA Security+, MTA Security
out systems, and collaborating
Education Salary Technology
What level education is needed for this career? According to your research, what is What technology skills, software, and
the lowest salary outlook for this hardware knowledge is needed for this job?
q Highschool Degree career?
q Associates Degree $98,350 • Security and virus protection
Average
q Bachelors Degree (McAfee, Symantic, etc.)
q Masters Degree • Network monitoring software
q Doctorate (Nagios, Wireshark, etc.)
q Certification(s): • Dev software (C, Powershell, etc.)
$56,750 $156,580
Certain software or hardware
certifications may be needed Low High
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Career Compass: Profession Profile Project
Navigating career options to direct your education journey.
Identified Companies
Visit a job posting site (such as Monster.com or Indeed.com) and identify at least three different companies that are looking for this career.
Requirements Salary
Company Name & Location Industry
(pick one that stood out) (if listed)
Charles Schwab; Westlake, TX Update & draft process documents for IAM processes. Identify N/A Finance
areas where Robotic Process Automation (RPA) can be used
Deloitte; San Antonio, TX Develop Persistent Readiness Training environments for N/A Government
cyberspace.
Samsung Electronics; Austin, TX Assisting w/ identification of security incident remediation N/A Technology
plans. Providing employee training on these items
JP Morgan Chase; Plano, TX Social media research and background investigations, analytical N/A Finance
assessments & strategic threats of concern
Local Job Search Industries
What does the job outlook look like within a 50 mile radius of your current location? What industries are hiring this career field?
100 mile radius? How many jobs showed up in during your search?
A wide range! From finance, technology, to
Within 50 miles, there are 179 current open positions for this job title and government sectors. All industries are hiring
related titles. Within 100 miles, there are 309 positions. cybersecurity specialists – and in all companies
large and small.
In Conclusion
Career Evaluation Final Thoughts
After reviewing job descriptions and various companies that offer Based on your research, would this be a career field or
this position, list pros and cons to this career. (Ex. Hours, salary, position you would consider? Why or why not?
work environment, education, travel, etc..)
While researching different job postings, I found that
Pros Cons there are a lot of job opportunities for this career. Not
only in different industries, but in companies small and
• Looks like a lot of job openings • Because of the wide range of large. I also found a wide range of requirements. Not all
(security) different job requirements – companies were asking for college degrees. And a lot of
• Can make a good living including school and companies also listed out specific certifications for
• I wouldn’t be limited to certifications – I have a lot of different software and security monitoring software. I will
working in a specific industry choices that I need to make to need to look into these different certifications more to
• A lot of options of how much decide if I want to specialize or see if I want to specialize in certain areas.
schooling I want to pursue. (I not. Or what type of company
found a couple of companies I want to work for. After all the research I’ve done, I am now more excited
that didn’t require college, but about this career because it looks like many of the
the big companies did require requirements align to my interests and goals with school
a bachelors and various and career. It also looks like a very secure field to pursue
certifications.) and will continue to grow with job openings with more
• It also looks like I can live in a companies using technology.
lot of different places since
jobs are located everywhere.
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