A brief history of SecurityRecruiter.com and a picture of the information security jobs, cyber security jobs, corporate security jobs, global compliance jobs, enterprise risk management jobs and privacy jobs we fill. Introduction to the Security Resume Writing and Security Career Coaching services of SecurityRecruiter.com and a chronological history of our security recruiting history.
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Security Recruiting History
Our recruiting track record dates back to 1990 when Jeff Snyder joined the largest IT search
firm in St. Louis and became a top producer half way through is 4.5 year tenure. Jeff’s
recruiting foundation includes experience recruiting IBM Mainframe, AS/400, DEC VAX, UNIX,
PCs, Network Infrastructure, LAN, WAN, MAN, Application Development, Database
Administration and more.
This deep IT recruiting experience has served as a solid base for transitioning into Information
Security recruiting back in the mid-1990s. By the late 1990s, our balance of recruiting switched
from general IT recruiting to a heavier focus on information security recruiting.
Mid 1990s
In the 1990s, we filled security job titles such as Security Engineer, Director of Information
Security and Chief Information Security Officer and CISO.
2000 - 2002
Information security recruiting continued through the early part of the 2000s and IT Audit
recruiting was added around 2002. SecurityRecruiter.com was created in 2001 and launched
on-line in 2006 as an effort to wrap a brand around our experience as security recruiters.
2007
In 2007, we took on our first physical security investigations focused search in the global oil and
gas industry. This effort lead to a Physical Security Manager / Maritime Port Security job filled
in Equatorial Guinea West Africa in the Oil and Gas industry. Filling this Africa Security Job
represented the first Security Job in Africa filled by SecurityRecruiter.com.
2008
In 2008, we filled multiple CISO jobs and CSO jobs with some of the world’s most progressive
companies. We also filled several Converged Chief Security Officer roles where our task was to
find security leaders who were deeply skilled in business, information security, physical
corporate security and enterprise risk management.
2008
Around the time when the first bank collapse occurred in California in or around October of
2008, Jeff Snyder created a security resume writing service built around a resume writing
methodology he had been working on for many years. To this day, Jeff’s resume writing service
helps his clients to open interview doors around the globe.
2. 2010
In 2010, our goal was for our year to end with 50% of our searches coming from cyber security
jobs and 50% coming from corporate security jobs. We opened up the year by filling a highly
complex Director of Global Security, FCPA, OFAC, ITAR, Patriot Act Compliance job. It looked
like Cyber Security Jobs would represent more than 50% of our filled jobs for 2010 but our last
two filled security jobs were Director of Global Corporate Security for Latin America and a
Regional Corporate Security Manager for Mexico City and Latin America.
2011
Filling Corporate Security Jobs isn’t all we do. Rounding out 2010 and rolling into 2011, we filled
a mission critical Chief Information Security job or CISO job for a top 25 bank and we also filled
a Converged Chief Security Officer job or CSO job for one of the world’s largest telecom
companies. This position covered all information security, corporate security and enterprise risk
management functions.
Entering the second half of 2011, we saw demand pick up substantially in the information
security jobs space. Companies paid more and more attention to cyber security threats and
responded by creating many new cyber security jobs to combat those threats. While the
information security jobs continued to roll in, we continued to look for IT Audit, Global
Compliance, Enterprise Risk Management, Global Privacy and new Corporate Security Jobs
where employers want to reach the industry’s top talent.
2011, Jeff Snyder Public Speaking
Another Converged Chief Security Officer Job came our way in Hollywood, California. Work
done on this search and on other Los Angeles Security Jobs opened the door for Jeff Snyder to
speak to the CISO Forum and the ISSA in Los Angeles in September of 2011.
Work done on a retained search to fill a Head of Security and Risk Management job in Dallas,
TX paved the way for Jeff to speak to the North Texas ISACA in November of 2011.
In December of 2011, Jeff was invited to train a group of IBM Business Partner technology sales
professionals in Denver, CO on the topic of LinkedIn for Business. Jeff has built one of the
largest LinkedIn networks in the world and rather than just having a presence on LinkedIn, Jeff
has been creating money making business development strategies on LinkedIn since he joined
the network as one of the first 1 Million members in 2004.
2012, Jeff Snyder Certified x2 as an Executive Coach
Jeff started 2012 by working with The Marshall Goldsmith Group and Executive Coaching
University to earn certifications in and to learn methodologies around executive coaching. Jeff’s
vision is to bring executive coaching to the security profession by way of
SecurityCareerCoach.com and SecurityJobCoach.com. These websites will launch in early
2013.
2012
SecurityRecruiter.com was called on in 2012 by multiple Fortune 200 companies to fill highly
strategic Information Security Jobs, Corporate Security Jobs, IT Risk Management Jobs,
Compliance Jobs and Privacy Jobs. One of the more significant positions we filled was a
3. Managing Director for the world’s leading application security and secure software development
firms.
Another highly strategic project was a CISO Job that had been open for 9 months. After
investing just under an hour on the phone with this company’s global CIO, Jeff delivered the
candidate who ultimately became his client’s first ever CISO a few weeks later.
2013
The first major search of the year at SecruityRecruiter.com is a newly created Director of
Business Intelligence for a Fortune 50 client. In addition to this highly strategic search, we
continue to look for mission critical strategic roles in Cyber Security, Corporate Security, IT Risk
Management, Global Compliance and Global Privacy.
Are You Ready?
When you’re ready to hire the industry’s most talented CISOs, CSOs, Chief Risk Officers, Chief
Compliance Officers, Chief Privacy Officers and more, call
Jeff Snyder @ SecruityRecruiter.com 719.686.8810