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Modernize Talent Management Working Group
Notice:
This Working Group is currently inactive. However, we encourage you to explore and participate in other groups within the NICE Community Coordinating Council, where you can continue engaging with like-minded individuals and contributing to meaningful discussions that energize, promote, and coordinate a robust community working together to advance an integrated ecosystem of cybersecurity education, training, and workforce development.
Focus:
This Working Group will focus on the NICE Strategic Plan goal to Modernize the Talent Management Process to Address Cybersecurity Skills Gaps. The group will conduct an ongoing environmental scan of programs, projects, and initiatives related to this strategic plan’s goals and objectives to assess the scope and sufficiency of efforts. The group will also identify gaps where more attention and effort is needed. The group will identify strategies and tactics to implement the corresponding objectives to this goal. The group will also develop corresponding metrics to measure progress and success. View the Modernize Talent Management Working Group Charter here.
This group will focus on the following NICE Strategic Plan goal and objectives:
Goal: Modernize the Talent Management Process to Address Cybersecurity Skills Gaps
Objectives:
- Enhance the capabilities of organizations and sectors to effectively recruit, hire, develop, and retain the talent needed to manage cybersecurity-related risks
- Utilize new technologies such as machine learning and automated approaches to increase connections and fit between employers and job seekers
- Align qualification requirements according to proficiency levels to reflect the competencies and capabilities required to perform tasks in the NICE Framework
- Promote the establishment of more entry-level positions and opportunities that provide avenues for growth and advancement
- Encourage and enable ongoing development and training of employees, including rotational and exchange programs, to foster and keep current talent with diverse skills and experiences
- Nurture effective practices in reskilling the unemployed, underemployed, incumbent workforce, and transitioning veterans to prepare them for careers in cybersecurity
Co-Chairs:
Jo Justice
Business Information Security Office (BISO)
Leidos
Olesya Menon
Security Education Program Manager
Google
Projects
Project Teams will execute upon items contained in the Implementation Plan for the NICE Strategic Plan. Project Teams are expected to have a 6 month duration.
Completed Projects | |
Issues Contributing to Talent Retention – 
Credit:
NICE Community
| This project team was formed to implement Objective 3.1 to "enhance the capabilities of organizations and sectors to effectively recruit, hire, develop, and retain the talent needed to manage cybersecurity-related risks". Project Leads: Jessie Bolton and Terry Leach View project charter Project Deliverable: Empowering Organizations to Retain Skilled Cybersecurity Talent for Long-Term Success White Paper (January 2025) |
Guidance on Writing Effective Job Descriptions Project Team 
Credit:
NICE Community
| This guide is for those in human resources, talent acquisition, or anyone who hires for cybersecurity roles. The Modernize Talent Management working group project team, in collaboration with industry professionals, created this guide to writing improved job descriptions that reflect organizational goals, align to the NICE Framework, expand your candidate talent pool and should help you hire more quickly. Includes detailed guidance. Project Lead: Dr Arianna Schuler Scott |
Cybersecurity Career-Entry Guidance Teams
| Two teams were formed to implement projects in support of NICE Strategic Plan Objective 3.3 to “align qualification requirements according to proficiency levels to reflect the competencies and capabilities required to perform tasks in the NICE Framework” and Objective 3.4 to “promote the establishment of more entry-level positions and opportunities that provide avenues for growth and advancement.”
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Human Resource One Pager 
Credit:
NICE Community
| The shortage of cybersecurity talent can make it challenging for organizations and Human Resource professionals to hire and retain a skilled cyber workforce. Adoption of one or more of the following strategic concepts may allow a hiring manager to identify gaps in their cybersecurity workforce and develop career pathways, while reducing "time-to-hire" and improving retention. Project Deliverable: Success Strategies for Cybersecurity Hiring for Human Resources and Hiring Professionals (October 2020) |
Workforce Management Guidebook 
| This guidebook provides things to know, and things to do, for everyone in an organization, regardless of its type or size. It is intended for the general audience, which may not otherwise be knowledgeable about, or interested in, cybersecurity. It can be read as a complete guide, or by each business function as standalone guides. With education and training, everyone can be a cybersecurity asset. Project Deliverable: Cybersecurity is Everyone's Job (October 2018) |
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