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What education, credentials, or experience are you particularly proud of, whether related to this position or not?
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Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
Your interviewer wants you to talk about your resume, and for you to walk them through your education and credentials by highlighting your experiences and how those informed your development and character. This will also help them determine if there are other skills or coursework or interests that you haven't found an application for professionally that might be of use in your position at the NSA.
On their website, they state they are looking for people with experience or education in history, government or political science, intelligence, foreign language, computer science/engineering/networking and security/programming, cybersecurity, data science and analysis, electrical engineering, information assurance, information technology or systems, data science and analysis, to name a few. "Your skills are key to our mission!"
Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
"As you can see from my resume, I have eight years of experience as a cryptographer, after being recruited from a hackathon competition. I also worked freelance identifying cybersecurity weaknesses for several security firms with whom I have signed NDAs, so unfortunately I cannot disclose those clients for verification, which is why it wasn't included in my resume. I am also a hobbyist when it comes to historical coding. I have a rather extensive library on the subject of secret messages, codes, and spy craft from the ancient world to the present day."
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