Are coding and cybersecurity bootcamps worth it?

Are cybersecurity and coding boot camps worth it?



Let's discuss! I have nearly 20 years of experience in technology education leadership as a Dean, Vice President, and Professor. I've helped thousands of people start and advance their tech careers over the years. This is just my opinion based on my previous experiences. Nothing guarantees an interview or a job!



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The article I referenced: Caliskan, E., & Vaarandi, R. (2020). Career development in cyber security: Bootcamp training programs. In International Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security (pp. 503-XVII). Academic Conferences International Limited. https://search.proquest.com/openview/a97ccef9164163f137c669041dfffec9/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=396500&casa_token=6FQmzXFO2VoAAAAA:gTCkSHd5fB2k1cP8pO-5SBRgGJBw7lDOb3dFlluH35CzLROpm3-sDZNg-gW4s74kwDHrBZZx-A




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TRANSCRIPT:



Hello there, and welcome back to my YouTube channel, podcast, website blog, wherever it is that you're watching this video, I am Dr. Heather Monthie. And in this episode or video, whatever it is that you are, I want to talk about cybersecurity boot camps, coding boot camps, it boot camps, and whether or not they're effective. And one of the things that I see a lot posted online, and I get a lot of questions by individual people, is whether or not coding boot camps, cybersecurity boot camps, etc, are worth the money. And then a lot of other questions that I see are, what is the difference between XYZ University and ABC University's cybersecurity boot camp? And which one should I choose? Which one's better?



So, you know, let's talk about this a little bit here. So, it my answer for everything is always it just it depends. It really depends on what your goals are, it really depends on what it is that you want to do long term for your career. And it really depends on what kind of education experience training etc you already have. You can be successful, you can be wildly successful attending a boot camp, you can be wildly successful getting a bachelor's degree, you can be wildly successful getting a master's degree, it really a lot of it depends on the kind of work and effort that you put in to Intuit right? So, um, a couple things. So cybersecurity boot camps. Yes, absolutely. They're great. So with cybersecurity and it boot camps, one thing you'll see is that there's boot camps out there to help prepare you for a certification. And then there's boot camps out there that will help prepare you probably more to have a foundational understanding, have a high level overview, be able to apply this more in, in industry more of a practitioner based approach, okay. And then some of them are gonna be much more hands on.



Now, the difference comes in this, you have the certification training, and then you have sort of career training, I guess I would call it and preparing to take a certification test is very different from preparing to start a new career. Okay. Now oftentimes, when you're trying to break into it cybersecurity, coding, tech, anything, you'll see a lot of job ads wanting certain certifications, you see it more on computer, cybersecurity, and it versus the software development computer science side, you certainly do see some of it there. But mostly, you see a lot on the cybersecurity information security, it site. And when you're going to get these go through these boot camps...