From the course: Bridging the Cyber Skills Gap: Finding and Fostering Cyber Talent
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Take-home projects: A better way
From the course: Bridging the Cyber Skills Gap: Finding and Fostering Cyber Talent
Take-home projects: A better way
- If you're looking for a better way to evaluate technical skill, use take-home projects. A take-home project is a short assignment that you can use to evaluate candidates on how they would perform as an employee. Candidates have the freedom to use whatever resources they need in a less stressful environment. What does a good take-home project look like? Let's take a look at an example take-home project which you can download from the exercise files of this course. An entry level cybersecurity analyst should have a basic ability to analyze and interpret data. So the take-home project should have one or two questions that directly assess these abilities. Take a look at the questions in our example to give you an idea of what to ask. Once the projects are submitted, review them using a grading rubric, check out the exercise files for an example, be sure to assess your candidates as objectively as possible. Next, have…
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