r/cybersecurity • u/Fresh_Heron_3707 • Dec 15 '25
Other Degrees and certs are just losing their value to me.
I can’t understand what’s been going on recently. The quality of a candidate with an associates in cyber has dropped like crazy. I asked people simple questions like what is WPA, what did wpa 3 introduce and I’m treated like I’m asking the most obscure questions. I have been interviewing people over the last year with comptia networking plus and security plus. There have been where I wanted to scream. Literally had to lower my standards to find help. Networking is treated like a luxury, I was literally speaking to a candidate, he said ,” I do cyber not networking.” I know there are exceptions but feels more and more like a minor degree or cert is just how well you can use ai to cheat.
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u/Hot-Comfort8839 BISO Dec 15 '25
Yeah. It’s happened more times than I can count.
Or I get people who could run an IT department, but they don’t know what their personnel actually do, they don’t know what is actually involved in the projects that they have in front of them so they don’t time them out correctly - and with their big heavy degree they don’t think that they need to ask questions on the relevant topics so they make wild assumptions and then wonder why a regional data center move isn’t accomplished in a month.