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you need to practice communication.
Cybersecurity students: you need to practice communication. Nobody cares how smart or technical you are if you can’t communicate effectively.
Honestly, a lot of people already in the field need to work on it too, but as as a student you have the bigger advantage of getting ahead of it now.
Technical skills can be taught to almost anyone. Communication is what bridges the gap between you and someone more technical, and it's what wins interviews when the other candidate has more years on paper. Being a good communicator is like a cheat code.
Three things to start practicing:
1. Writing a one paragraph risk summary that a non-technical person can act on. Choose a CVE, vulnerability, etc, and pretend you're drafting a risk assessment and recommendations to management. Act through the whole process.
2. Presenting a technical topic to someone with no technical background and holding their attention the whole way through. Ask your family and friends if you can explain a technical topic to them, see if they understand it. (Don't bore them too much)
3. Sitting in disagreement without getting defensive. A lot of security work is telling people things they don't want to hear. This is hard to practice, it takes a lot of reps. You also need to know how to say no, negotiate, and compromise.
If you can somehow bring these skills up in an interview with relevant examples and you'll stand out. Not only that, but you will likely interview better as a result of better communication too.
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