Recruiting senior security professionals
Oct 5th, 2016 by Jesper Kråkhede
None of you raises an eyebrow when I say that I work at Sogeti and as all other consulting firms together with my clients we struggle with finding the right people. Finding junior staff is rather easy, keeping them a bit more challenging as it should be. But the senior people, like me, are harder to move into the organisation. I got a question last night from another company how we managed to snatch a very senior consultant from them. Salary wise we were on par with them together with everything else like bonus, freebies etc.
So what do we have to offer that gave us the upper hand his time? I would love to say that it´s my winning personality but, alas, it was in spite of that. 😉 We offer a different way of working with our Security Office. Security Office is a new way of delivering security. Yes, it’s an outsourced security department but it’s even more than that. It gives senior consultants time to work with the hard and complex stuff while giving the junior consultants challenges, all packaged in a way that makes it a competitive offer compared to all other companies.
We also offer a lot of education and courses together with our partners meaning that the challenge is finding time rather than the cost of training.
I´m actually a bit proud to see that my work the last 10 years within the group and outside has grown to this.