European Cyber Recruitment Initiative

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ECSO and Women4Cyber are working together to develop a European Cyber Recruitment Initiative to help reduce the workforce gap and speed up the hiring process in the cybersecurity industry.

Working together for a strong cybersecurity workforce in Europe

Mission and Objectives

Concrete actions are needed to reduce the workforce gap, to attract young graduates and professionals to a career in cybersecurity, an retain and train talents, and ensure them career paths, to address the skills shortage both in technical and leadership position and support the digital transition.

As part of its overall mission of contributing to European digital strategic autonomy and to the strengthening of Europe’s cyber resilience, the European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO) is developing a European Cyber Recruitment Initiative. It is intended to be an expert group of HR professionals to help reduce the workforce gap and speed up the hiring process in cybersecurity in Europe.

ONGOING WORK

In partnership with the Women4Cyber Foundation, we strive for implementation of concrete actions like a European Cybersecurity Job Platform platform, Road2Cyber, which will help you finding more easily the needed experts, post job openings, trainings and access a talent pool and cyber ranges opportunities.

The ECSO European Cyber Recruitment Initiative will organise webinars and training sessions dedicated to HR practitioners on best practices and topics on the HR sector.

To be a member of the European Cyber Recruitment Initiative is:

Access a network of HR at the EU level
Communicate information on HR matters
Join monthly update calls on the community and recent activities
Receive a monthly digest and news on challenges and EU policies related to skills

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