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#Cybersecurity Hiring Is Not Broken—Your Job Descriptions Are

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Cybersecurity Hiring Is Not Broken—Your Job Descriptions Are

The cybersecurity #talentgap isn't just about finding people—it's about understanding who you have and what you actually need.

At #BlackHat2025, Deidre Diamond (CEO of #CyberSN) and Carraig Stanwyck (CEO of 3 Tree Tech) reveal why outdated job descriptions and static spreadsheets are sabotaging your security team's success.

The hidden problems killing your team effectiveness:
• Leaders manage complex teams with tools that can't capture real-time role changes or skill utilization
• Employees burn out doing work outside their job descriptions
• Strategic plans and budgets are built on incomplete or inaccurate information • Generic job postings create the "square peg, round hole" hiring problem
• Retention suffers when skills and roles don't align

CyberSN's workforce risk management platform changes the game by providing:
• Dynamic capability mapping—see how each capability is staffed and identify gaps
• Role realignment insights to match employees with work that fits their strengths
• Accurate job descriptions based on actual needs, not outdated templates
• Employee engagement data for better career planning and retention
• Data-backed insights that strengthen budget requests

The #business impact?
Improved retention, stronger budgets, reduced burnout, and teams that can proactively adapt to changing priorities. When you truly understand your #workforce, you can transform cybersecurity from a reactive function into a strategic force.

📺 Watch the video: https://youtu.be/TIIwtawhGFE

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#Cybersecurity #TalentManagement #WorkforceRisk #CyberHiring #BlackHatUSA #BHUSA25 #SecurityTeams #CyberCareers #TeamBuilding

NEW opinion paper by Waseem Jerjes titled: Primary care stability as a social determinant. The paper examines the role of primary care #workforce stability as a #socialdeterminant of health, arguing that its instability exacerbates existing #health #inequalities, particularly in disadvantaged areas.

IMHO a clear analysis of current and hopefully future #healthcare policies in #primarycare

#OA #opinion #publichealth #science

AI boosts efficiency but risks displacing staff. SMBs must upskill, redefine roles, and embed continuous learning to align AI with sustainable growth. #AI #Upskilling #SMB #Workforce

https://venturebeat.com/ai/ais-promise-of-opportunity-masks-a-reality-of-managed-displacement/

Megatrend **#29** - The Arrival of the Humanoid Robots: "A decade of progress in a year; the humanoid robot era is here, and it's accelerating with astonishing speed and breathtaking developments." - Futurist Jim Carroll

The humanoid robot industry is accelerating due to a convergence of advanced AI, collapsing hardware costs, and massive new investment.

This is moving humanoids from science fiction to industrial reality, with deployments scaling in factories to address global labor shortages. The next wave will expand into healthcare and elder care, bringing the long-term vision of domestic assistance closer to reality.

What does it mean? Well, for one thing, my family keeps telling me that I'll need to have some sort of hobby when I eventually retire. So I've settled on the idea that within 5 years, I'll probably have a humanoid robot in the house that I can train and work with. I've been telling the guys on the golf course that I'll be showing up with my robot caddy at some point - it will carry my bag, and perhaps offer up some golf advice.

I made a short little video imagining this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5ErU70RdqY

Most of them were not amused. My wife, in particular, is not excited by the idea and has registered an emphatic NO. I can see this is going to take some work.

That said, the cost for these fascinating little devices is fast approaching the PC-cost collapse curve, with the Chinese-made Unitree R1 now available for $5,900 US. Give it a few years, and you'll be able to grab one for $999.

We stand at a historic inflection point in humanoid robotics, driven by the powerful convergence of exponential AI advances, unprecedented capital investment, revolutionary training technologies, and rapidly falling hardware costs—all unfolding within a distinct geopolitical landscape that will shape the future of work.

There's a full PDF right here if you want to dig in further.

https://pdf.jimcarroll.com/Megatrend29-HumanoidRobots.pdf

All of this means that what we thought was far away is suddenly... at our doorstep.

**#Humanoid** **#Robots** **#AI** **#Automation** **#Technology** **#Innovation** **#Manufacturing** **#Healthcare** **#Future** **#Workforce**

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/08/decoding-tomorrow-30-megatrends-29-the-arrival-of-the-humanoid-robot-a-decade-of-progress-in-a-year-the-humanoid-robot-era-is-here-and-its-accelerating-with-astonishing-speed-and-breathtak/

https://greygalaxie.substack.com/p/the-war-to-turn-women-back-into-the

The #War to Turn #Women Back Into the Nation’s #Unpaid #Workforce
Grey Galaxie

..."The administration’s push through Congress to slash Medicare and Medicaid is not an accounting error or a matter of tightening belts. It is a calculated dismantling of care infrastructure meant to shove elder support back into private homes. With state-backed eldercare stripped away, the burden will not fall evenly. It will crash, predictably, onto women."..

Business news story punchline:

"We are adjusting our ______ to account for current #MarketPressures and #FinancialClimate ...."

Pick a term to fill in the blank:

#Prices , #Earnings , #Workforce , #Investments , #Costs , #Locations , #Availablity , #Dividends , #Forecasts , #BuyBacks , etcetera...

Translation:

We can't use words like #tarrifs , #taxes , #capitulation , #blackmail , #cowardice , and #NutJob , to describe Uncle Donnie's #fascist #politics , to say just how fucked we are.

#LosAngelesCounty: The Fire Recovery and Resilience Workforce Program provides immediate hiring and training support for impacted and dislocated workers from the January 2025 windstorms and wildfires in partnership with LA County Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO) and the region’s America’s Job Centers of California.

#Hiring #Jobs #Training #Workforce

https://opportunity.lacounty.gov/fireworkforce/