I’ve been thinking about pivoting into cybersecurity because everyone says it’s growing, but I’m not sure how realistic that is without prior IT experience. Has anyone here successfully made that transition starting from zero or is the industry still mostly hiring experienced people?

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I suppose you're going to keep posting the same question until you get the answer you want to hear. Sorry but once again the answer is nobody's hiring entry level with no experience.

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Every job posting I come across has a minimum requirement of a certain number of years of experience, which may make it difficult to land an interview to be able to talk about growing into the role.

Go ahead and apply, but set expectations accordingly. In general tech is over-saturated with qualified applicants due to the huge number of layoffs in the last few years.

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If you’re going to do it, you need to take a part time help desk job while you’re studying for cybersecurity. You need some level of IT experience.

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