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Why An IT Degree And Certs Got Jason Zero Interviews, And The One Thing He Changed To Land His Dream Cyber Role In 4 Months

Most IT pros assume a degree and certs get you hired. Jason had both and never got a single interview. Watch the video below to see what he changed.

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Why Most People Who Try To Break Into Cyber Never Get Hired

It's not that they aren't smart. And it's not that nobody is hiring. It's that they follow the path everyone tells them to follow, and it ends with a pile of certificates and nothing to prove they can do the job.

If a degree and a stack of certs got you hired, there would be no shortage of cyber professionals.

Yet every week, people with both can't get a single interview.

So what are employers actually looking for?

What you think will work

“I'll get a degree.”

Ask yourself

Who is teaching you? Have they ever worked a real incident, or only read about one?
Why do graduates still hear “we need someone with experience”?
Why do you study for years before you touch the tools a security team uses every day?
Who checks that what you are learning is what teams use today?

A degree shows you can study. It does not show an employer you can investigate an alert.

What you think will work

“I'll collect certifications.”

Ask yourself

Why can you buy “brain dumps” (leaked exam questions) for many of the most popular certs, Security+ included?
If people can memorise the answers, pass, and forget them a week later, what does a pass really prove?
Hiring managers know this too. So why would a cert alone get you hired?
Why does nobody selling you a cert course tell you this?

A cert can be crammed. Experience can't. A hiring manager wants to see you work an incident.

What you think will work

“I'll teach myself.”

Ask yourself

Who tells you what to learn next?
Who tells you when you are doing it wrong?
Where do you practise on real tools like a SIEM and EDR when they are built for companies, not beginners?
Who looks at your CV and tells you the truth?

You collect fragments, but nothing you can show.

The trap nobody warns you about

Every entry-level job asks for experience

You can't get experience without the job

That loop is why the degree, the cert and the YouTube playlist don't get you out of it. The only way out is experience you can prove.

How we get you there

The faster way in: three steps from IT to your first cyber role.

You don't need years at uni or a pile of certs to get hired. You need experience you can prove, and people checking your work. Here is how we get you there, step by step. Every image below is a real screenshot from inside the program. Tap any image to enlarge it.

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Full prep for Microsoft SC-200 with hands-on labs and real tool walkthroughs, not exam dumps. A credential backed by real, demonstrable skills employers can verify.

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Hands-on tool walkthroughs

Lab-based, not memorisation

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From stuck to hired in cyber.

Help desk, retail, sales, engineering. Different backgrounds, same result. Press play and hear it in their own words.

Straight from our student community

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Meet Sohail Ershadi, Founder of CyberXcel

Most cybersecurity trainers spent their careers in classrooms. I spent mine in the field — over a decade as a cybersecurity consultant across Australia and the Middle East, dealing with real threats and real consequences inside enterprise environments.

What most people don't know: I wasn't always in tech. I was a musician first. I made a complete transition into IT, then into cybersecurity — with no traditional pathway and plenty of people who said it couldn't be done.

CyberXcel exists because I got tired of watching talented people waste years on programs never designed to get them hired. Every element — the mentor model, the enterprise labs, the recruiter support — answers one question: what would actually get someone hired?

"If you're ready to stop going in circles and start building something real — I'd like to show you how."

We Only Work With 12 New Students Per Month — Spots Are Limited.

Cybersecurity is booming, and we personally coach each student through every step of their transition. Because of that, we limit new enrollments to 12 per month. If you’re serious about making the move — now’s your chance to get personal guidance and accountability.

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