Hire Your Replacement

When you hire your replacement, you ensure continuity in the function when you move on through promotion, change of employer, or retirement. This approach means you intentionally recruit outside of your organization, or promote someone within it, to assume your current role while you are still in it.

Targeting someone who is ready to fill your shoes has multiple advantages for you and your organization. Companies often want solid succession plans in place that serve to minimize disturbance when/ if key players like yourself are promoted or leave.

By far, the top core competency our clients ask us to recruit for is leadership. Managing a security department and leading one are not the same, and a mature leader focuses on big-picture success vs. solely personal gain. Often, this means hiring and mentoring others to step into more responsible roles like yours.

It also enables you to grow within your company should your department expand, and the volume of responsibilities exceed the capacity of one person. Hiring or promoting someone into a replacement-capacity position gives you the freedom to focus on larger, strategic, new opportunities within your organization.

Security leaders routinely consider a wide variety of business continuity concerns and often hire practitioners with siloed capabilities to address specific issues. Instead….

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