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Recruiting the 'best Fit'

As a Security Department hiring manager for a multi-billion dollar company, I got to see first hand how companies struggle to recruit and retain the best. Having worked  with many good Recruiters and HR departments, I am still amazed at how many companies still recruit new EP and other security candidates by taking a generic security job profile,  and then send it out to the masses on every site in the world. Some of the best known, and most respected organizations are literally posting jobs on Craigslist because they just don't know where to find good people.
After sending out these broad-brush calls for applications, they must then cull through hundreds (if not thousands of resumes) trying to find that one candidate that is the "perfect fit". They are bombarded by resumes from great people. Military, law enforcement, security contractors...you name it. But they are not familiar with the nuances of this line of work, nor the terminology and acronyms that typically abound...

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