Already working in IT
You may already have more experience in a field than your job title says.
Job titles are terrible at describing what people can actually do. Someone who has run FortiGate firewalls, Forescout and Cisco ISE for six years has been doing network access control, segmentation, posture assessment and policy enforcement — which is cybersecurity engineering, whatever the org chart calls it.
Tick what you have genuinely worked with. We map each one to capabilities rather than to job titles, because capabilities survive a change of vendor and a change of employer.
Most of your experience in uniform?
The list above is civilian tooling, so it will miss a lot of what you actually did. The military translator runs the same analysis starting from capabilities instead of product names. Open it →
How the mapping works
The list above holds 49 technologies across 12 categories. None of them maps straight to a job title. Each one maps to the capabilities it demonstrates — 55 in total — and the fields and roles fall out of which capabilities pile up.
Reading your results
What to do with it
- Find out what you would enjoy →The scenario assessment, with this inventory factored in automatically.
- Compare two roles →Where the work of two close roles overlaps, and where it really differs.
- Browse the technology directory →Every technology above, in plain English, with the roles that use it.
- Try the work this weekend →Free hands-on trials of the real work, before you pay for a course.
Common questions
What counts as having "worked with" a technology?
Tick it if you have configured, administered, troubleshot, or built something with it — at work, in a lab, or in a homelab. Leave it if you have only heard of it or watched someone else use it. Nothing here checks your answers, so over-ticking only makes the picture less useful to you.
Is this a skills test?
No. It does not measure how good you are with anything. It shows what kinds of work your experience already involves, which is often broader than your job title suggests.
Why capabilities instead of job titles?
The same title means very different work at different employers, and vendors change. A capability such as firewall policy or identity federation carries over when you switch products or companies, and it is closer to what a hiring manager is actually trying to find.
What do the percentages mean?
On the fields, 100% is simply your strongest field in this selection; the others are relative to it. On roles, the percentage is a similarity score between your capability profile and the role’s profile — not a measure of readiness or a chance of being hired.
A technology I use is missing. What should I do?
Tick the closest equivalents — the capability is what matters, not the brand. Then tell us through the contact page which technology is missing so it can be added.
Does this change my assessment result?
Yes, if you take the assessment afterwards in the same browser. Your inventory is blended in at a deliberately lower weight than your scenario answers, and the results page tells you that it was included.