Career Milestones
I have six career milestones that I am working on as aims for my career. The six career milestones will include the CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure, GIAC Security Professional, CISSP, Certified Ethical Hacker, PMI-ACP and the CCISO. These certifications will define my career and future business prospects. There are some other specialties that I will want to do as well regarding Cloud Networking, Network Security, Network Defense and Network Penetration Testing.
The specialties are some of the things that I am working on as subsidiary goals to my career milestones. These are my interests that I am having to work on for more of a networking focus to my career. There are some things that I am grappling with on the certifications and skills needed to do the specialties. I will work on this additionally and will provide more of an update when I am ready on the specialties.
Career Goals
In addition to the career milestones, I do have some goals about what I want to accomplish for my career. I want to become a CIO, CISO or CTO eventually and do it before I turn 51 which is the average age of a CTO. This aim will shape how my career will turn out and how I prepare to be better equipped for this eventuality. Working on my soft skills, business skills and technology skills will enable me to get closer to landing my dream job as a CTO, CISO, or CIO.
Goal Setting
These career milestones and career goals shape my approach to setting goals for the year. This year I am focusing on mainly recertification and Cloud Networking skills. I will be doing four or five certifications this year around this aim. The certifications that I will be working on will include the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner - Foundational, Google Cloud Digital Leader, Microsoft AZ-104, CompTIA Security+, and the Cisco ENCC Specialist Exam.
In addition, I will be working on my Microsoft Certified Trainer certification that will be available after I pass the AZ-104 exam. I have smaller goals that I am working on as well. These include certain courses on Udemy, LinkedIn Learning and YouTube. I will be attending to my Security Operations and IAM knowledge for the CISSP domains and work on my specialties more.
Conclusion
As I work through my aims this year towards the goals of my career milestones and career goals, I will be better than I am now at the end of this journey. There are some goals for reading as well as some more content creation, influencer marketing and coaching courses. As the journey continues, we will continue down the path to a better future.