Advice on Growing in Cybersecurity

The poster works as a Security Engineer in higher education, primarily handling incident response, SIEM/SOAR, phishing investigations, and log analysis. They earned a GIAC GCLD certification but feel it hasn’t led to more job opportunities, questioning whether GCIH might have been a better fit for their current role. They face challenges with visa sponsorship, which often blocks progress at the HR screening stage, and have had few interview opportunities since late last year. Despite daily job applications, networking, and studying via TryHackMe/Hack The Box, they feel uncertain about their progress.