08/12/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 08/12/2024 13:28
Leidos has publicly committed to piloting new hiring techniques for cybersecurity jobs that emphasize job seekers' skills over qualifications to help fill crucial cybersecurity roles.
Why it matters: With hundreds of thousands of open cyber jobs across the country, hiring skilled cybersecurity professionals is critical for national security and economic growth.
At a White Housecyber workforce event held at the College of Southern Nevada Friday, National Cyber Director Harry Coker highlighted Leidos' skills-based hiring.
Where it stands: Leidos developed and submitted a pledge to the White House to publicly commit to help address the cyber skills gap.
The big picture: Caldwell noted that closing the cyber skills gaphas myriad benefits. A robust, skilled and diverse workforce:
A long history: Leidos has in recent years supported initiatives related to hiring military veterans and spouses as well as cybersecurity education, training, upskilling, and reskilling. These include:
Go deeper:
Our pledge:
Leidos, a provider of IT and cyber services to the federal government, is dedicated to shaping a more inclusive, educated, and innovative cyber future through three key workforce pillars focused on skills-based hiring, diversity, and training future-ready talent.
To enable skills-based hiring, Leidos commits to developing a comprehensive skills strategy. This strategy will focus on matching talent to jobs based on skills, utilizing degree equivalency criteria, pay differentiation for specialized skills, and cyber career development aligned with the NIST NICE skill taxonomy.
Leidos also pledges to share best practice outcomes from the skills strategy across the industry and to hire 15,000 veterans and military spouses by 2030. Of these, 7,000 are projected to be technical hires, a rate that exceeds non-veteran hires, and 2,500 of the projected technical hires would not need to hold a college degree.
Certain statements in this announcement constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the rules and regulations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). These statements are based on management's current beliefs and expectations and are subject to significant risks and uncertainties. These statements are not guarantees of future results or occurrences. A number of factors could cause our actual results, performance, achievements, or industry results to be different from the results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These factors include, but are not limited to, the "Risk Factors" set forth in Leidos' Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 29, 2023, and other such filings that Leidos makes with the SEC from time to time. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. Leidos does not undertake to update forward-looking statements to reflect the impact of circumstances or events that arise after the date the forward-looking statements were made.