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Title: Exploring How the NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework Aligns Cybersecurity Jobs with Potential Candidates
We discuss the NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework (NCWF), and its role in aligning cybersecurity jobs with candidates. As a workforce development tool, the NCWF can contribute to better retention, reduced new hire training, and cybersecurity education development. The effectiveness of the NCWF, however, requires discretion from hiring managers, academics, and job seekers. Through skills mapping and calibration, the NCWF helps to identify and resolve skill deficiencies; as a framework of core competencies for cybersecurity jobs, the NCWF helps employers to write job descriptions understood by applicants. We first review the NCWF, and then explain how it may enable mapping between jobs and qualifications. We also discuss the effects of job mapping on organizations and candidates, and its long-term benefits.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1723596
PAR ID:
10094856
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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The 14th International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering (FECS'18). Las Vegas, USA.
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Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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