Christina Maskley ⋅ Vero Beach, FL Northrop Grumman ⋅ 4 years experience

Check out Northrop Grumman Skillbridge jobs.

Keith Cassant ⋅ Virginia Beach, VA Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency ⋅ 4 years experience

Here's some more "exploratory" type resources that can hopefully help:

https://pauljerimy.com/security-certification-roadmap/
https://niccs.cisa.gov/workforce-development/cyber-career-pathways-tool
https://niccs.cisa.gov/workforce-development/nice-framework

Lorena Coorsh ⋅ Mc Lean, VA General Infomatics, Inc. ⋅ 25 years experience

Hi, Oceana:
I will be delighted to speak with you and hopefully be able to provide some good advice. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you think that I can be of any assistance. Always happy to help!

Jerry Welsh ⋅ Middleville, MI Master Military Transition Advisor/HPS GPO ⋅ 30 years experience

The IT area has lots of different career paths. You might want to conduct some informational interviews with different career professionals. If in the informational interviews you find a path in the IT field that would help you narrow the career. This will also help refine your knowledge.

Richard Byrne ⋅ Hillsborough, NJ Intel Corporation ⋅ 53 years experience

Look over the job adds, pick some you like.
Commercial job search IT, TS/SCI, BS, your location 104 joobs
https://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=Information+Technology&l=Hampton%2C+VA&sc=0kf%3Aattr%289QX3B%29attr%28FCGTU%7CHFDVW%7CQJZM9%7CUTPWG%252COR%29%3B&vjk=428e8b6ae7bda8c8

https://www.clearancejobs.com/
https://www.youtube.com/c/ClearanceJobs

Fed Gov job search, your location, 191 jobs:
https://www.usajobs.gov/Search/Results?l=Hampton%2C%20Virginia&k=Information%20Security

Alternately, I've added links to information & videos under these sections of my EE webpage that you might find useful:
http://eehot.com/ee.html#networking - 1 year FREE LinkedIn premium for veterans
http://eehot.com/ee.html#jobs
http://eehot.com/ee.html#gjobs - Gov jobs.
http://eehot.com/ee.html#mentoring
http://eehot.com/ee.html#infosec
http://eehot.com/ee.html#datascience
http://eehot.com/ee.html#pm
http://eehot.com/ee.html#training
http://eehot.com/ee.html#languages
(You could mouse over entries in the jump box table at the top of the webpage to reveal section descriptions)

ACP AdvisorNet Staff ⋅ New York, NY ⋅ 10 years experience

Hi Oceana!

Thank you for reaching out! The below resources may be of interest to you:

https://www.acp-usa.org/sites/default/files/resources-files/Networking%20Tips_5.pdf
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-veterans-can-make-most-out-linkedin-daniel-savage/?trackingId=sf1%2FfGDHacL1JLTbwd9a3w%3D%3D

Have a great day!