Understand Security Recruitment to Advance Your Career
Understand Security Recruitment to Advance Your Career
The corporate security recruitment landscape of today looks quite different from that of ten years ago. Technological advancements that benefit hiring companies and candidates alike have grown and their effect on recruitment has been noticed. It is interesting to evaluate how some recruitment practices have evolved to meet these challenges. Some of these shifts have been beneficial while others have created an impersonal, transactional environment.
Recruitment companies of all sizes around the globe adapt in diverse ways to the changing face of talent acquisition. Some of those firms that pre-dated the explosion of data/cyber-security have either been sold, diversified into other recruitment sectors, or branched into unrelated businesses such as meetings or themed conferences to augment revenue.
Despite security’s heightened profile, corporate security executive roles remain in the minority within organizations. Internal human resources and talent acquisition departments often struggle to fill those positions as they recruit for them so infrequently. Social media and networking sites offer internal recruiters a source of potential candidates in areas they may not normally work, and in some instances can be a viable solution. Unfortunately, participants in the largest professional sites have started to shift their utilization. As a result, its members are more frequently sharing a wide range of personal endeavors, social activities, and unsolicited sometimes inappropriate opinions.
Organizations that tend to hire a specialist security recruiter know that the same pool of candidates available to their internal recruitment team is available to the recruiter. It is our experience that many clients who hire us are doing so for just that reason. Rather than searching for only those candidates who have put themselves out there, they are seeking engagement with…
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