Why do I find it hard to explain what I do at my current job at job interviews? To make it high-level enough to be understandable, but also at the same time to be able to emphasize my specific role and impact. Help

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I don’t worry about describing what I do. I look at THEIR job description and their words and I circle or highlight the things I do of those key words. I practice my response but basically talk about pieces of my job through their words/job description categories. They might not get the perfect picture of my actual day to day, but they come off the convo feeling like there are great parallels between my job and what they need

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^that

Are you applying for jobs that are completely unrelated to your current role?? I usually try to think of what my day to day looks like (this varies throughout the year of course but think short term/small picture) and then I try to think of mid-term goals/tasks and then I think of big picture / long term stuff I do. Then I just pick the highlights out of those items that I think best showcase my role and what I’m contributing to my team (of course I also highlight the parts that are most relevant to prospective job / appealing to prospective employer)

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Wow, this is super helpful. Thanks! That’s correct, I’m applying to jobs that are unrelated to what I currently do.

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This is an issue when interviewing for industry roles. And more so when your profile isn’t a straight fit e.g. straight up cybersecurity/IT security/InfoSec type consulting profile interviewing for a cybersecurity/IT security/InfoSec type role. If your profile covers Software development, information security, cloud migration, TOM strategy, SAP related stuff, banking regulatory projects, risk appetite and every other combo of variety, it’s seen as a “so what do you really do” type experience, because those who’ve only spent time in industry or exited consulting after spending a year or two in it, simply cannot grasp the idea that consulting can offer you a much wider breadth of experience in a very short span of time. Depending on your personal desire and willingness to stretch yourself, you could develop a better 360 vision than someone who may have spent 20 years scrubbing the same board over and over.

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Very insightful, thank you for sharing. I considered transitioning to consulting for the larger/Big 4 but was somewhat hesitant since the cybersecurity focus appears to be mostly IT and cloud. My specialty is in critical infrastructure (the OT, IT/OT, and cyber physical convergence spaces), and so to expand my knowledge there, I am studying the business enterprise and cloud spaces.

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