Hire for the work
Connect role requirements with candidate skills and supporting evidence.
For Organizations | Employers
Build a cyber workforce around the capability you need. QuickStart connects HiringIQ talent decisions, SkillsIQ team development, and AdaptIQ planning. Choose a starting point for your next workforce priority.
Your employer workforce model
The capability your organization needs
Employer priorities
Build a cyber workforce
Choose the next workforce priority
Hire. Develop. Plan.
The employer workforce model
Define the work, review existing capability, and decide what to develop or hire. QuickStart's cybersecurity workforce solutions connect hiring through HiringIQ, development through SkillsIQ, and planning through AdaptIQ.
Connect role requirements with candidate skills and supporting evidence.
Focus learning on the skills behind a workforce priority.
Understand capability gaps before investing in hiring or development.
Hire Cyber Talent
HiringIQ helps employers consider candidate capability against role requirements. Bring security and recruiting teams into a shared conversation about skills and evidence when additional cyber talent is the priority.
Define the work and skills before evaluating candidates.
Consider skills and experience relevant to the responsibilities.
Review supporting evidence and questions to investigate.
Develop Cyber Talent
SkillsIQ supports development around defined skills needs. Choose the readiness, learning, or reskilling route that fits your team's priority and the capability the work requires.
Focus development on a team priority.
Connect a learning route with the skills the work needs.
Explore development for changing roles.
Plan Your Cyber Workforce
Use AdaptIQ's planning approach to frame capability needs and workforce priorities. Explore intelligence and diagnostic routes to inform hiring and development decisions.
Explore the skills and roles context behind strategic workforce questions.
Explore intelligenceConsider workforce needs across cyber and IT responsibilities.
Explore workforce planningCompare current capability with a defined goal or role.
Explore skills gap analysisExplore the shared model of skills, roles, and relationships.
Explore the skills ontologyAdaptIQ powers SkillsIQ and HiringIQ as the shared intelligence platform
A starting point for employers
Cyber talent solutions for employers start with the capability you need. Choose the route that fits your immediate decision, whether you have a vacancy, a development priority, or a planning question.
Define responsibilities and skills, then explore HiringIQ talent evaluation.
Identify the capability to strengthen, then explore SkillsIQ development.
Clarify future requirements and gaps, then explore AdaptIQ planning.
Your employer workforce conversation
Bring one workforce priority to the conversation. Explore the relevant product route, discuss current scope and access, and agree what your organization needs next.
Describe the role, capability, or workforce question to address.
Discuss the product fit and evidence you need next.
Choose a next step around your requirements and access options.
Specialized organization routes
Use this Employers page for a broad workforce need. When the decision centers on a particular team or operating model, explore the relevant specialist page for more focused context.
Explore the wider audience overview and choose the route that matches your organization.
Connect workforce decisions with security leadership and operational requirements.
Bring shared skills criteria into recruiting and HR decisions.
Explore workforce needs for managed security services.
Explore cyber talent needs across your clients' workforces.
Connect workforce needs with public-sector responsibilities and mission.
Explore education providers' role in cyber workforce development.
Skills context for employers
AdaptIQ powers SkillsIQ and HiringIQ as a shared intelligence platform. Skills Wallet gives learners a portable skills profile. Employers can review the context behind capability claims to make discussions about development or potential role fit more specific.
Frequently asked questions
Answers about building a cyber workforce, hiring and training, where to start, and which product fits your needs.
Your next employer workforce decision
Build a cyber workforce around the capability you need. Continue to AdaptIQ, or talk to us about the right hiring, development, or planning route.