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Understand the person behind the resume

We help you define the role, find and assess relevant talent, understand how a candidate’s experience relates to your hiring needs, and prepare for the conversation ahead.

Define the work: Clarify the responsibilities, expectations and environment the person will work in.
Find and assess talent: Find relevant professionals and assess their technical experience.
Explore the experience: Understand how the person’s work and decisions relate to your hiring needs.
Prepare the conversation: Focus the interview on relevant strengths and questions that need a closer look.

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Fictional Candidate Profile

Alex Morgan

Senior OT Security Engineer · Manufacturing & critical infrastructure

Open to a conversation

Experience: 12 yearsEngineering + Cybersecurity
Location: Columbus, OHHybrid · Up to 25% travel
Target base: $150k to $165kFull-time · Available in 4 weeks
Operating reach: 3 plants14 production lines

Capability map

The shape of Alex's experience

Candidate

Unassessed: None. Missing evidence is not zero ability.

View responsibility levels by work area

Industrial systems and safety: Candidate: Leads delivery (4/5)
Network security and segmentation: Candidate: Leads delivery (4/5)
Identity, access and remote connectivity: Candidate: Independent (3/5)
Asset and vulnerability management: Candidate: Leads delivery (4/5)
Detection and security operations: Candidate: Independent (3/5)
Incident response and recovery: Candidate: Assisted (2/5)
Security architecture and engineering: Candidate: Leads delivery (4/5)
Risk, governance and program leadership: Candidate: Leads delivery (4/5)

How to read the five levels and comparison

Each spoke is a work domain. Distance from the center describes the scope of responsibility recorded for that domain, not years of experience or a test score.

Awareness: Recognizes the concepts with explicit supporting evidence. A topic mention alone is unassessed.
Assisted: Performs tasks with guidance or supervision.
Independent: Performs the work independently.
Leads delivery: Leads a team or owns delivery of that work.
Defines strategy: Sets organization-wide direction, standards or strategy.

The solid outline, round markers and shaded area show the responsibility described in the candidate’s experience. They do not establish tested ability or suitability for a role.

Unknown or unassessed domains have no plotted point. Incomplete series have no filled polygon. Confirm text-derived suggestions through discussion or assessment; a higher level does not automatically mean a better match.

1 Awareness · 2 Assisted · 3 Independent · 4 Leads delivery · 5 Defines strategy

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Our Services Beyond Recruiting

We also provide technical talent assessments for Cybersecurity roles and help employers develop secure job descriptions that explain the work while keeping sensitive details out of public view.

Talent Assessments

Explore technical experience for a prospective hire or someone on your team. We agree on the questions, format, and report scope before work begins.

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Secure Job Descriptions

Clarify the responsibilities and experience you need, then build or refine a job description that explains the role without exposing sensitive details.

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Before Your Next Conversation

Your job description could be an attacker’s next lead.

Explain the role without exposing sensitive details. Learn how public technology names can become clues about your environment.

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What a Useful OT Cybersecurity Hiring Assessment Looks Like

See how an assessment explores relevant work and connects the findings to a hiring or development decision.

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