From the course: Bridging the Cyber Skills Gap: Finding and Fostering Cyber Talent
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The purpose of technical interviews
From the course: Bridging the Cyber Skills Gap: Finding and Fostering Cyber Talent
The purpose of technical interviews
- Technical interviews are extremely important for every role and level in cybersecurity. After all, this is a multifaceted, highly complex, and deeply technical discipline. This may surprise you, but there are many people trying to break into cybersecurity that have a deep understanding of cybersecurity concepts. This may seem contradictory, but I assure you it's not. Why, because a deep understanding of technical concepts can be learned outside of a work environment. Book knowledge always proceeds the application of that knowledge. Entry level folks learn from the same resources that you use yourself. They, just like you, put in the effort to understand frameworks, protocols, reference architectures, and best practices. They, just like you, are able to see the bigger picture. Someone who is able to learn difficult concepts is someone that you want on your team. When doing a technical interview of entry level candidates,…
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