first of all, this is a threat intended for people living outside of the united states and having a hard time finding the proper job or career they would like to have, focussed on pentesting ofcourse.

even though i havent been working in this profession for a long time, at this point i'm (already) walking into some walls. i see that the demand for good ethical hackers / penetration testers is a lot lower then i would like to see. i think this has something to do with the characteristics of the typical dutch people, but thats a completely different story.

i think this profession is way more appriciated in for example the united states, and what i'd like to know is how does this affect job opportunities and if you are willing, is it wise to move to the united states to boost you carreer? any experience here?

Also add that if you do not have Green Card/or Citizen you will not able to go inside of this profession in EEUU.

It is very hard to start here.

to keep the discussion going, there is no influence of external factors like girlfriends, wife, family or other things. part of being happy is having the right job isnt it?


this is good to know!  so type of occupation has influence on the possibility of getting a greed card...interesting...keeping this in mind means that everybody is pretty stuck at the location there currently at

It's very difficult in that way, first you need to have some high skills or some masters that will incentive a company to sporson you a work visa. The work visa after one renew is for 6 years.

During that time maybe the company can sponsor you the Green Card, but with this economic situation where they begin to see with bad eyes to those companies that bring foreing exployees makes it more difficult.

It's more eays make a security comapny and try to sell your sevice to EEUU's companies.

I don't know how the Dutch government regulations are. Here in the States we have PCI which requires vuln assessments and pen testing, and there's also HIPAA and SOX which have an auditing requirement.

If you have regs that are new and the culture isn't quite there yet, then that sounds like a great business opportunity to be one of the first pen testing shops.

Or if moving to the States is an option, then go for it. I'm all for gobbling up good talent and motivated people. 

Don

I could be more easy because there are more available visas (few companies are applying), but the difficult part is to find the company to sponsor you. If you get one company you will be ok.

There is another posibility, a lot of people get this one, they have a small business in your contry and they use a lawyer to obtaing a work visa for your business, I am not sure if they call it work visas but is something realted  (there are some requirements).