Warehouse Worker to $90K Cybersecurity Job (Full Journey)

If you’re new to my channel, my name is Sijia. I help run the Cyber Range, an online community dedicated to helping you gain real, hands-on cybersecurity experience. On this channel, I interview our members who have successfully landed job offers after trusting our process. They share their personal journeys, interview insights, and the exact steps they took to turn their training into a career. In this video, I sit down with Carlton, a former warehouse supervisor who successfully broke into cybersecurity and landed an entry-level SecOps role at IBM making just under $100K. He shares how he applied to the same company five times before finally getting the offer, and why persistence and not taking rejections personally were key to his job search. One of his biggest takeaways is the power of narrowing your focus to just two or three cybersecurity domains so you can tailor your resume, prep your interviews, and speak confidently about hands-on projects. He also reveals how steering interview conversations toward real-world projects, and communicating technical concepts clearly to non-technical people — helped him stand out and land the role. ——— 00:00 Intro & Current Role 01:58 Applications & Interviews 04:23 Sharing Projects in Interviews 07:28 Job Search Strategy 11:24 Why He Joined the Cyber Range 15:43 Interview Approach 19:12 Cyber Range Takeaways & Advice ——— ⚡️ The Cyber Range: Enterprise Cyber Training + Internships⚡️ https://www.skool.com/signup?ref=f7fd...