Supporting Recruiters

People seem surprised when I tell them that as part of our expansion plans Pythia Cyber wants to have recruiters as clients. There seems to be an assumption that recruiters and talent assessment don't mix.

I can't imagine why this would be. Recruiters have a process and a product. In my experience the process is rather humanist and the product is the trust their clients have in them as a function of the track record they have with their clients.

We see ourselves as completely compatible with that model. We don't get between the placement firms and their clients. In fact, we provide a straight fee-for-service to the search firm: we assess whichever candidates they choose, we deliver our high-level report and the firm can do with that whatever they like.

We don't tell people who to hire, we tell people what the likely consequences would be if they hire the assessed candidates. In this case we enhance your picture of candidates with an assessment of their talents in the specific areas of cybersecurity. What you do with that assessment is up to you. We also don't tell people who to recommend.

We assume that your expertise and experience mean that you can make these value judgments for yourself. In fact, in this model, we count on it. After doing the assessment we are out of the process completely. You still own the relationship both with the candidate and the client.

Can your client's environment afford to support a candidate who is weak in some areas in order to bring on board extraordinary strengths in other areas? Fantastic. Does your client's need for immediate help in some area make them willing to make trade-offs that other prospective employers would not want to make? Entirely up to you.

This is what Pythia Cyber's talent assessment stack is all about: providing a broader basis on which to make your value judgments.

So you do you, helping your clients fill difficult to fill openings using your process and your contacts. Feeling less certain that you can judge cybersecurity credentials and experience at the entry level, the manager level or the executive level? Then we can help with the appropriate assessment. Bring your magic to a new domain without having to climb that learning curve. Judging talent is hard. We can help. Ask us how.