White House says NO DEGREE!!

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  The White House has officially endorsed skills-based hiring for cybersecurity and IT positions, recognizing that a degree is not the only path to a successful tech career. NetworkChuck breaks down this groundbreaking announcement, highlighting the importance of certifications, apprenticeships, and practical skills in landing high-paying jobs in the rapidly growing field of cybersecurity. Discover how you can take advantage of this shift in hiring practices and kickstart your IT career without a traditional degree.

  Press Release: https://federalnewsnetwork.com/hiring-retention/2024/04/wh-aims-to-transition-nearly-100k-federal-it-jobs-to-skills-based-hiring/

• I worked in an organization that, in order to save a lot of money put the intern in charge of our IT dept. For a few years afterwards we received several notices of breaches. I'm guessing there were other breaches that they thought weren't important enough to notify us of. He had skills but lacked experience to keep us safe in an online environment. Just saying

• Who is making mad money with no degree and has not been in IT for more than 10 years i just want to see if this applys to younger people.

• I had self studied for my A+ and other certs back in the day, used the govt. Grants to get my associates.

• I remember conversations in the office, back in the day with some milenials, all of them had not finished college, owed a whole lot of money for student loans, and weren't planning to go back to college because it was too expensive.

• So should I quit college?

• Certs… 😂

• It takes loads of money for testing for those certs…

• “Skill based learning” is aka outsourcing to other countries. I’ve been in the industry long enough to know.

• I think having general education is still a good idea though.

• national cyber director

• Cyber is a midlevel position. Almost no one is hiring someone out of college with no experience. Degree or no degree.
  My guess is that it means that that AI that scans your resume won't be set to throw it in the trash if it can't find the degree. That honor will bestowed upon HR.

• So, moving the goal post again? I earned multiple degrees only to have Billy Joe memorize a test and get a cert to get in? SMH

• Its tough for me with my degree about to take my cyber skills to the dark side 😅

• i'd highy recommend, in regard to my previous post, to "cron" a prompt to ollama to daily summarize for you (and email to you) the topics and any conclusions, advice, … your children have discussed w/ the local GPTs… can't be too safe!

• WARNING: keep in mind of "AI hallucinations" – and in combo w/ children's minds are rather easily influenced, even the "safe" models (LLMs) can be dangerous for children due to providing inaccurate and even (allowing to develop) possibly "dangerous thoughts"… when it comes to children, err at the side of caution !!!

• Your views on this topic is simplistic at best. A university gives you a universal education. You get technical skills as well as other life skills like communication, psychology, economics etc. If you don’t have communication skills, you aren’t going to be promoted. A manager has to be able to communicate. If you don’t know how or why you need to pace your self with psychology skills, you will burn out. If you don’t understand economics, you aren’t going to make good finical decisions for you or your family. If you don’t know biology, you are not going know why you need to eat right. If you don’t eat right, your brain is not going to work right making your technical skills inaccessible. I used to think like you do. But as I got older and faced a number of non-technical life challenges, I am so very glad that I got a 4 year college degree.

• Let’s be clear, most companies are still asking for degrees and filtering out people without them. When hiring you literally have to scream at the HR team to get skill based resume filtering.

• Sure, a degree doesn't help when every entry level IT job requires 3+ years experience. I have degrees and certs and have only been asked to one interview after a year of applications. Not sure if it is my lack of experience or if the hiring process is broken, but my resume is solid.

• I say phwck em'. For 30 years they said you need a degree, and now that they are desperate for us Gen X's loaded with technical skills we taught ourselves on our own time and dime, they want to hire us now after 30 years of being unemployed because we couldn't get past an intimidating Google Style interview? Phwck em'! By now we can make and run our own companies.

• YESSIR!!!

• Love the Basquiat shirt!

• I’m going to school for my bachelors in cybersecurity and information assurance at WGU. At WGU it’s all competency based meaning you have to pass certifications to pass the classes. Certifications for my degree include A+, Net+, Sec+, CySa+, Pentest+, SSCP, CCSP, and Project+. WGU is cheap and by the time you graduate you have tons of certs and the degree which is the best of both worlds. Just saying, it’s not a “one or the other” mentality when it comes to certs vs degrees you can do both.

• lets goooooooooooooooooooooooooo upppppppppppppppppppppp man thats crazy

• No, they can't fill these cybersecurity positions because of the asinine test they make you test that has nothing to do with the actual job. Then, they state you can't apply for a year because of such.

• Baseline certs were all we looked for when I worked for DoD. I think they’ll have even more success if they stop fretting about cannabis.

• Hi Chuck.. You look like a Federal Agent. You look very smart and intelligent.

• Tech skills are becoming increasingly easier to test someone's competency on. Soon we'll have AI building tests that adapt on the fly relative to a persons progress to such a point whereby people taking the same titled test for the same job will each be doing a variant of the original to avoid cheating and passing on outside info.

• a great example for the rest of the world…

• in Poland only true patriots want to work in IT for a Goverment or Military. It's just a mission without proper money.

• What is wrong with you bro???🤔Did you really think this was gonna be a good look for you? Goodbye channel.👀😬

• Or just learn out right hacking from the age of 12 – 18 and then get hired to the Government to fix all those backdoors that you have been hacking for the past 6 years. lol Oh and by the way, we now know who had been hacking us for the past 6 years.. ooops

• Where do you guys look for these jobs? I've been using LinkedIn, Info-Sec and Indeed. Sometimes just Google itself. I'd appreciate if anyone knew any other else. I'm going for a B.S. in Cyber, and have a year left (it's not too expensive where I'm at an accredited). I do plan on getting those certifications as well. Any additional help for either internships or other websites idk of would be appreciated!

• the white house also said Rus > C. Can't trust everything the government says yk

• Really great news!
  Thank you for the video!

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