People & Security

Education Level: Basic

2215 - The Road to Hiring is Paved in Good Intentions

Speaker(s)

• 

  Tim O'Brien, CISSP

  Director, Security Operations
  Trace3

The information security field is in desperate need of people with the technical skills and capabilities to fill a myriad of roles within organizations around the world. However, hiring managers and leadership are doing horribly when it comes to hiring and interviewing for these roles. Organizations are doing poorly trying to communicate expectations for a job, conducting interviews that make it impossible for candidates to showcase their (limited or vast) experience. Some managers posture themselves so poorly that the candidates want nothing to do with the opportunity.

This talk takes the experiences of the speaker as both interviewer and interviewee, as well as from others within the scene, to let the people making hiring decisions know what they can do to get the people and experience they need for their teams. In addition, this allows for candidates to learn the limiting factors and challenges hiring mangers face, in hopes to prepare for and "hack the system" to work around those obstacles.

Learning Objectives:

• Be more active and involved in your local IT/information security community; mentor younger/less experienced professionals.
• Improve your application process—your screening process and criteria. Conduct a “pen test” on your application process.
• Identify possible social engineering approaches in hiring, and determine mitigations.