Identifiez et recrutez des candidats top performers en utilisant la science. Design a bespoke assessment that is predictive of future performance within Cyber Security roles for your organisation. • Understand the relationship between human capital metrics and business performance for Cyber Security roles. • Use for recruitment of internal and external talent and assess to identify and acquire candidates like your top performers in Cyber Security job roles • Address the skills gap internally using the success profile and identify training and development interventions

1. Solution Brief
IBM Software
IBM Kenexa Predictive
Hiring for Cyber Security
Roles
Identify and acquire candidates like your top performers
using behavioural science, data and analytics.
Highlights:
• Design a bespoke assessment that is
predictive of future performance within
Cyber Security roles for your organisation.
• Understand the relationship between
human capital metrics and business perfor-
mance for Cyber Security roles.
• Use for recruitment of internal and external
talent and assess to identify and acquire
candidates like your top performers in
Cyber Security job roles
• Address the skills gap internally using the
success profile and identify training and
development interventions
IBM understands that there is a critical business requirement, to identify
individuals with skills necessary to investigate current breaches and prevent
potential attacks/breaches from happening. Business executives in US and
Europe consider cyber security as their highest priority within digital
technology, as it is estimated that the cyber security workforce shortage is
expected to reach 1.5 million unfilled positions by 2019. Therefore, the
need to defend businesses and organisational systems from external threats
has become imperative more than ever before.
IBM Kenexa Predictive Hiring for Cyber Security Roles helps answer a
critical question facing many businesses; “How can we identify, assess,
develop and retain talent that have both the capacity and capability to
defend businesses and organisational systems from external threats?”
IBM Kenexa Predictive Hiring solution for Cyber Security roles can help
to identify and define the critical aptitude, skills and competences that
drive top Cyber Security performance in your organisation, as well as help
you understand how to recruit more like your top performers to drive
business success and reduce cyber risks.
This bespoke solution is a combination of consultancy design to help
identify the specific factors critical to organizational success, and bespoke
content design to ensure the assessment is predictive of individual Cyber
Security performance. In turn, the tool can be used for selection of
high-potential candidates and employees most suited for success on the
job.

2. Solution Brief
IBM Software
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Data-driven decisions
IBM Kenexa Predictive Hiring for Cyber Security Roles can
help organizations illustrate the relationship among people and
unit inputs, external factors and business outcomes, allowing
insight into the impact of human capital metrics on business
performance. Using this insight, the solution provides an
improved ability to make data-driven decisions about the
relative merits of human capital initiatives, and enables you to
make improvements in your hiring practices.
Identifying top performers
IBM Kenexa Predictive Hiring for Cyber Security solution
helps you identify the critical performance characteristics of
your best talent in Cyber Security roles and helps you acquire
more like them, improving the quality of hire and acquiring the
right talent for business success.
Did you know?
The most serious cyber security breaches for big businesses now starts at £1.46 million - more than double 2014 figure of £600,000. For small and medium-sized
enterprises, the cost of the most serious breaches can now reach as high as £310,800 - up from £115,000 in 2014, according to UK government’s Information Security
Breaches Survey 2015
Figure 01: Research, identify and hire candidates matching top performer profiles.
PEOPLE, UNIT AND
BUSINESS LINKAGE
RESEARCH:
Key elements that
differentiate that
performance
IDENTIFY IMPACT:
The link between
human capital
metrics and business
performance
LEARN FROM
YOUR BEST:
Identify traits
of top performers
in a key job
DEVELOP AND
DEPLOY
ASSESSMENT:
Hire candidates who
match the profile
of top performers
ENSURE SUCCESS: Review ROI, adverse impact, consulting follow up
Learning from MOD Cyber Security Roles
IBM Smarter Workforce consultants in collaboration with the
Ministry of Defence and their Defence Cyber Subject Matter
Experts researched, designed and developed a unique suite of
assessments that identify the best candidates with the right
aptitude, skills and competences to succeed in Cyber jobs
(https://www.gov.uk/government/news/defence-cyber-test-
launched).
The IBM Kenexa consultants will use their knowledge from the
project to ensure the Predictive Hiring for Cyber Security
solution will be bespoke to your organisation. The solution
content will be a combination of existing IBM content or new
content, ensuring the tool is robust, job relevant, reliable and
valid in predicting future job performance in cyber security job
roles in corporate settings.

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