security career planning

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…

The end of May marks the unofficial start to summer in the United States, a season when activity surrounding both available security jobs and candidates for those roles often scales down. That is not going to be the case this year. Starting in late 2024, we began to see an increase in public sector law enforcement professionals exiting U.S. government agencies. This has continued, and we have had month-over-month increases in the number of these…

Do you know where your security job is leveled in relationship to the rest of the positions in your organization? Our recruitment team asks this question of every candidate we interview. Most often, the answer we hear is “no.” Unlike non-security jobs that have similar duties and differ primarily in level of seniority in the role, security positions often have wildly different responsibilities. This makes it challenging to classify or grade all security roles across…

Influences that shape both the job market as well as workplace dynamics continue to evolve. Unique to the security profession, however, is that many of these key factors will have an increased effect on the security risks that your organization faces in addition to challenging you on a personal level. Remote and hybrid work models vs RTO mandates Indications are each of these three will continue to affect work that, by its nature, requires a…

Organizations have increasingly added compliance with security-related regulations and standards to their CSO’s responsibilities. Depending on the nature of the requirement, this may fully reside within the security department’s scope or be jointly managed with other groups. Your organization may very well have obligations dictated by governments outside the United States. These obligations may affect you because of the nationality of your employees or suppliers, even though they are not in the country that passed…