Infinite Opportunity, Secure Your Future
RapidAscent provides the training, tools, and contacts you need to jumpstart your career. Get job ready!
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We provide everything you need to break into cybersecurity, no matter where you’re starting from. No degree or experience required.
A Fun Gamified Learning Journey
Through our self-paced learning platform, gain key skills through engaging content, level up to unlock rooms, earn achievement badges, and prepare for your certifications.
Hands-On Experience In A Job Simulation
We provide a realistic training environment that helps you build confidence and master the professional skills that companies need.
Train to the Exact Tasks That Our Employers Need
Learn tasks employers require on the job and showcase your achievements to perform them for The Boeing Company, Lockheed Martin, and others.
Get Recruited For Paid Apprenticeships
Upon completion of our JumpStart Program, qualify for our accelerated training and match to employers and apprenticeships before or during the training.
No degree or experience required
Cybersecurity is exciting, lucrative, and in high demand. We reflect that in our learning content and program structure to make sure you can see yourself as a future cybersecurity professional.
Whether you are looking for an alternative path to college or a career change, RapidAscent gives you the freedom to pave your own way.
We designed our program to provide you with a seamless journey from learning cybersecurity for the first time to working as a skilled cybersecurity professional at a major company.
How It Works
Job Readiness Training
Achieve the Job Readiness
That Employers Need
Qualify for our Tuition-based Job Readiness program and more competitive Apprenticeships:
- Accelerated 17-week Full-Time Training
“If you pay tuition and take the accelerated program, you may be able to move into an apprenticeship right away during the training or after if an employer picks you up as an apprentice.” - Accelerated 23-week Evening Training “If you pay tuition and take the accelerated program, you may be able to move into an apprenticeship right away during the training or after if an employer picks you up as an apprentice.”
- Opportunities for 1-yr Apprenticeship “Please note that the apprenticeship programs are highly competitive and difficult to win and can take up to 6 months to compete for.”
Interact with companies while training in any of our programs. Prepare to move into a career job directly or compete for a DOL-registered apprenticeship program.
Get up to 30 college degree track credits while taking any of our programs.
RapidAscent’s 5-Step Job Readiness Plan
Create Account
10-15 Minutes
Select “Get Started” And Fill Out Survey
Answer all questions and Create Your RapidAScent Account to Start the Process
Meet 1-On-1
60-90 Minutes
Schedule and attend a
1-on-1 assessment
Meet with a RapidAscent team member to discuss what success means to you, begin planning Your Path Forward.
Acceptance
60-90 Minutes
Finalize Acceptance Plan
Prepare a plan that includes enrollment, role specialization, college credits, mentors, and community.
Jump Start
6-8 Hours of Initial Training
Launch immediately with JumpStart Pre-training
Start Executing with JumpStart pre-training to prepare for full immersive training To Provide a baseline for yourself on Key Fundamentals.
Full Immersion
Start 17-Week Program
Enter Job Simulation Training
Learn and execute Tasks that you will be Doing your first year on the job, supported by teams, network, and Coaches.
We Give You the training, tools, and contacts to break into Cyber Security
Match To Employers
Job Ready
Prior to, During, or Upon successful completion of Immersive Training, match with potential employers that offer Direct hire and apprenticeship opportunities
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Powered by Our Veteran Instructors
Combined Experience
Educated
Partners
Avg. Salary
Master tasks to secure products such as aircraft, defense systems, and the latest in self-driven systems.
FAQs
All training is oriented at the tasks that you will need to do on the job as a successful entry-level cybersecurity professional. All training is designed in conjunction with employers to ensure you are job ready and maximizes your hiring opportunities.
You do not have to have a degree or any prior experience to join our program. You only need to pass our JumpStart training and have an interview process to be accepted. If you have a degree at any level in cybersecurity or other programs, but need the operational experience, you can also attend our programs.
Our full time program runs 17-weeks with instruction and joint exercises starting at 7:30 pm PT/10:30pm ET and closing at 2:00 pm PT / 5:00 pm ET. Self-driven work can be done during the remaining portion of your day depending on your tme zone.
The 23-week evening program has 4 hours Mon-Thu and another 8 hours of self-driven to be completed on the weekend or other times of your choosing during the week. The instruction runs from 5pm to 7pm PT/ 8pm to 10 pm each evening. 2 hours self-directed training can be done for the rest of the evening.
You will receive a certificate from RapidAscent along with a certficate from our partnering university and a credly badge that is approved for the aerospace profession in Cybersecurity. You will also get a certification for training that allows you to apply this training towards a DOL-pprenticeship program moving forward. In addition, if you do not have CompTIA Sec+, we will provide training to test for Sec+ and if you already have Sec+, then we will help you in your CySA+ and Net+. We are a proud partner of CompTIA.
