Trying to get my career started
Hello all, new user here. I graduated from college last year and have been trying to get a pentesting position with no luck. Pentesting has been my dream job since middle school. I played CTFs and got OSCP in high school which really helped me develop my methodology for HTB which I worked on through college where I also worked at university tech support for a few months. I got OSEP after I graduated and started grinding linkedin which hit me with a reality check. I was naive and thought my certs would be enough to get me a junior role. To me the certs aren't just letters as I know how much I learned from the work I put into getting them, but now I see how much experience and public projects matter.
I regret quitting my job in tech support despite how miserable I was since I don't even have a year of IT work experience to my name. I regret not creating writeups for the HTB labs I did and all the other personal work I've done, but now is the time to move forward. I will most likely not be able to go straight into pentesting as I wished, and honestly now I hope I can even get an IT role since I'm running out of time.
I've heard projects are good on resumes and I think I have a great idea for a project that would help me understand AD attacks at a much deeper level than I currently do, but I'm not sure how to market it on a resume. Does anyone have any advice for how to write about a project you did on a resume?
I've looked at so many resources about job searching and getting into pentesting/cybersecurity so I know this might be a pretty generic post. I'm not sure what I hope to get from posting this, but anything might help me figure out what to do and keep going. Thank you