will75g/soc-day19-soc-job-search-resources

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Mindmap

mindmap
  root((soc-day19-job-search))
    Inputs
      Reader looking for SOC role
    Outputs
      Job board guide
      Cert roadmap
      Interview prep guide
    Use Cases
      Plan SOC career path
      Choose first certs
      Prepare for SOC interviews
      Find MSSP entry roles
    Tech Stack
      Markdown

mindmap root((soc-day19-job-search)) Inputs Reader looking for SOC role Outputs Job board guide Cert roadmap Interview prep guide Use Cases Plan SOC career path Choose first certs Prepare for SOC interviews Find MSSP entry roles Tech Stack Markdown

Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Pick which entry-level SOC job boards to apply on first

USE CASE 2

Sequence CompTIA, CySA+, and SANS certifications by phase

USE CASE 3

Rehearse twenty common SOC interview questions with STAR-style answers

USE CASE 4

Estimate study cost and time before paying for a certification

Tech stack

Markdown

Getting it running

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min

Pure Markdown reference, no install needed.

In plain English

This repository is the nineteenth entry in a 28-day portfolio series aimed at people preparing for entry-level SOC analyst roles. A SOC is a security operations center, and Tier 1 and Tier 2 analysts are the people who watch security alerts and decide what is real and what is noise. Day 19 is the career-prep stop in that series: it gathers job search material rather than technical exercises. Three resources sit inside the repo. The first is a guide to job boards, covering more than 15 platforms ranked by how effective they are for entry-level candidates. It calls out MSSPs (managed security service providers) as the easiest entry path, notes that applying within 24 hours of a posting gives roughly three times more recruiter visibility, and lists 2026 salary ranges across the SOC analyst tiers. The second is a certification roadmap broken into three phases. Phase one covers the foundational CompTIA Network+ and Security+ exams. Phase two adds SOC-specific certifications such as CySA+, TryHackMe SOC Level 1, and Blue Team Labs Online. Phase three reaches advanced ones like Splunk Core Certified, Microsoft SC-200, and the SANS GIAC GSEC. Each entry lists cost, study time, and free study material. The third resource is an interview preparation guide. It describes the three interview formats a SOC candidate typically faces (technical screen, panel, behavioural), the must-know topics, twenty common interview questions with structured answers, the STAR framework for behavioural questions with a portfolio-based example, six smart questions for the candidate to ask the interviewer, and a checklist for the day before. The repository structure is three markdown files plus the README. There is no code, no scripts, and no software to install. The author frames the work as the bridge between the technical exercises of days one through eighteen and the act of actually landing a job, and presents the whole 28-day series as a self-paced launch system for breaking into the cybersecurity industry.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1

Turn soc-day19-soc-job-search-resources into a static site with a checklist UI for the cert roadmap

Prompt 2

Convert the interview question list in soc-day19-soc-job-search-resources into Anki flashcards

Prompt 3

Write a Python script that scrapes the listed job boards for entry-level SOC postings under 24 hours old

Prompt 4

Summarize soc-day19-soc-job-search-resources into a one-page PDF resume cover sheet for SOC applicants

Prompt 5

Build a Notion template from the certification roadmap with cost, study hours, and exam date fields

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