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by foo101 2961 days ago
> Furthermore, after a couple hundred interviews over the course of my career, use of the term "cyber" is a huge red flag. Very few such people with "cyber" on their resumes are hired where I work.

Sounds like a workplace one should avoid. It seems quite petty that one would consider a harmless and a completely acceptable word to be a reason to look at a potential candidate with a negative bias.

Maybe I should start including the word "cyber" in my resume going forward to filter out petty employers like yours.

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It's not the use of the word, it's the background that comes with it. Seeing "cyber" all over a resume usually means the candidate has been a contractor for some government agency where they run a vuln scanner and deliver the reports to someone, but don't really have any understanding of the results, or any real responsibility at all, usually.