Hacking Skills you Need for your CV and Career in It & Telecoms

Share

Hacking Skills List in It & Telecoms

Below we have compiled a list of the most popular skills for a Hacking role. We ranked the top skills based on the percentage of Hacking job descriptions they appeared on. For example, 50% of Hacking job descriptions contained incident response as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

incident response
50%
siem
50%
threat management
40%
securit
30%
ir
30%
soc
30%
security analyst
30%
information security
30%
security consultant
30%
security engineer
30%
security operations centre
30%
security operations
20%
security
20%
vulnerability
20%
detection
20%
networking
10%
windows
10%
security management
10%
pharmaceutical
10%
technology
10%
consultant
10%
risk management
10%
risk manager
10%
firewalls
10%
endpoint security
10%
threat analysis
10%
casework
10%
patching
10%
network security
10%
iso27001
10%
cyber security
10%
cissp
10%
work practices
10%
witness statements
10%
witness
10%
extraction
10%
encase
10%

While these keywords are a good start, remember that every job is different. Instead of including all these keywords on your CV, identify the keywords most relevant to the job you're applying to and include those. For the best chance of success use our CV keyword scanner tool to help with this.

Including the right keywords in your CV will help you get past Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and win more job interviews from employers and recruiters.


Do you want
more job interviews?

Improve your CV's success rate by using these Hacking skills and keywords or scan your CV to get a personalised score.