10. Create a personal development plan (AC 2.4)

Long term goal (dream position) Working as penetration tester in a non-profit organisation _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Medium term goal Have at least 10 years of cyber experience before applying for pentesting positions What will I do to achieve this continue on the CompTIA cybersecurity pathway and get these certificates: A+, Network+, Security+, Pentest+. Spend at least 7 hours a week on Tryhackme.com and work through Pentesting career path using their practical labs. Join the Open Uni Cyber Security Course What success looks like Having worked at at least 3 different job positions, starting at IT support or similar, then system administration/ network engineering/security operations (SOC)/ incident response or malware analysis/reverse engineering. Get through the CompTIA Pentest+ certificate. Finish Open Uni Cyber Course with first class honours. Target date for completion End of 2035 _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Short term goal #1 to help achieve the above Find any IT job (preferably in a cyber company), join Open University Cyber Course What will I do to achieve this Create CV, LinkedIn profile, finish this course, start applying for IT positions within 50miles. Apply for the position at Open Uni for Cyber Security course. What success looks like Success would a be an part time IT job in my area and successful admission to Open Uni Target date for completion - Open Uni 11/09/2025 - last day for registration Target date for completion - Finding an IT job Before 2025 Christmas _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Short term goal #2 to help achieve the above Learn Python What will I do to achieve this Find course on Python programming. Maybe Khan Academy, or Coursera, or HacktheBox or similar What success looks like Know the basics of python and be able to program simple to intermediate scripts/programs Target date for completion End of 2025 _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Short term goal #3 to help achieve the above Get familiar with maths again What will I do to achieve this Continue using Khan Academy or similar What success looks like Feel confident when doing any kind of calculation, whether its 13*8 or trigonometry Target date for completion Summer 2026