[the_only_law]

> With the rise in number of new security engineers every year all competing for few "security research" jobs (security research/hacking is the "I want to be a game developer" of security)

I’ll believe it, curious what other options there are for all those other new “security engineers”. Compliance work?

[bdelay]

If you're new, it's the same advice as any other field. Find a way to stand out. Build a portfolio, have great grades, come from a good university program, ping contacts from your alumni network, do bug bounties, find and fix issues in open-source, etc.