2015-2016 HBCU Careers Magazine

HBCU Careers Magazine

jobs, looking at their Cyber Corps college scholarship and stipend program. This may be the key for any

organization to fill cyber security jobs.

“While the existing talent pool can be a limiter for Recruiters, our college and university graduate data

estimates that 53,000 people graduated with an IT degree and some coursework in cyber security

during 2013. We also estimate that a similar number of people will graduate with the same education

in 2014. One problem employers might have in recruiting from colleges is that the majority (53%) of

students are graduating with an Associate’s degree. However, 93% of cyber security jobs require a

Bachelor’s degree or higher. To overcome this challenge, employers may want to either work with

colleges to encourage students to pursue at least a Bachelor’s degree, or consider hiring potential

candidates with an Associate’s Degree and develop an on-the-job development program.”

Given all the Federal grant money we pour into endowments, it would be good to see more University

Programs come forward and help drive enrollment into CAE Schools. Models like these for a path and

career advancement opportunities within talent communities can only serve to promote awareness,

digital engagement and outreach efforts that can stem the tide by a cadre

of pre-screened applicants while building awareness and candidate supply

for the field with our young people from minority serving institutions.

To quote Col. Rivers Johnson retired Army OPA Cyber Command

“We need to ensure that we’ve got standardized training and that we

also educate the workforce early on with regard to STEM and that we hit

them straight in middle school and high school and we can continue that

in college, but active recruiting is very important. We can continue to

establish the Cyber Centers of Excellence so that the individuals recruited

will, in fact, have a job available for them when they -- they graduate.”

As he mentions in the video interview from last springs CyberForce2014 Summit “It’s a team sport” If

you would like more specifics or access to research to help your organization build a coalition reach out

to DHS and ask about how can your organization help build and receive value through common cause

strategic partnership effort to leverage more or share resources across public-private –academic efforts

for starters feel free to visit this content library or lesson plan on

versal here

o6qfcr/cybersecurity-workforce-issues

Author of the Book entitled

Cybersecurity Leadership: Powering the Modern Organization

By Mansur Hasib, DSc, CISSP, PMP, CPHIMS Cybersecurity and Healthcare Leader at the University

System of Maryland wrote in an article on page 70 of this magazine some very interesting thoughts.