u/Timely_Peach_2498

Hello everyone. I am sorry if this is too off-topic or personal, but I don't know where else to ask. I already asked something similar in another sub, but a lot of what they said was that the job market isn't great, and I can accept that, but I feel like my job-searching strategy isn't optimal.

I have been struggling to break into IT for the past few months. What I am currently doing is I basically use sites like indeed, ziprecruiter, monster, and also dice to try to find IT-related jobs (I usually try to specifically look for security-related jobs since I have the OSCP certification, but I do apply to general entry-level jobs too), and then I also google local IT job openings in my area. I try to stick to my local area since remote jobs get thousands of applicants.

Then, after searching for jobs like that, after an hour I might have only found 10 jobs in my area, and 90% of them require 3-5 years of experience, so then there's only 1 viable entry-level job I can apply to after an hour of searching. And since it's entry-level, it of course has a lot of applicants.

Is there something I am missing here in my job-finding strategy? I feel like there has to be, since there has to be more jobs than what I'm finding. So I want to ask: how do you all search for jobs? Is the search mostly an irl thing, or are there sites I'm not aware of? Any help / advice would be appreciated, thanks.

edit: I've scrolled the sub and I've figured out this is not for me. thanks for the advice anyway

Hello everyone. I know that posts like these are usually considered clutter, but I feel like I just have to ask since I've been struggling to find a job recently.

Here is what I'm currently doing:

In my local area, there aren't that many IT job postings, at least on sites like indeed, ziprecruiter, and monster.com and whenever I apply to them, nothing really comes from it. Also, nothing comes from remote jobs since thousands of people are applying to those.

The other day I also made my resume a little bit nicer, just to highlight the OSCP specifically, and I have done some other security stuff, but my previous jobs haven't been that relevant to IT, so I really don't have any on-the-job experience.

Like what else could I be doing in order to get just an entry-level IT job? It doesn't have to be security, it could just be a helpdesk role, but it seems like it's hard to get those, too. Also, how did you manage to get a job after passing that certification? I'd really appreciate any "success stories" anyone has here.