Hire the professional, not the credential
The best cybersecurity candidate may have the certification requested in the job description. But the best candidate may also have developed capability through years of incident response, architecture work, system administration, software engineering, audit, risk management or operational experience.
A certificate should strengthen a candidate’s profile. It should not automatically define the candidate’s value. Hire based on demonstrated capability, relevant experience, judgment and potential.
The objective is not to find the candidate with the longest list of credentials. It is to find the professional who can help the organisation make better security decisions when the answer is not already written in a textbook.
