Cyber Command Plans Hiring Events In Maryland

FORT MEADE, MD — The US Cyber Command is stepping up recruiting efforts with a series of hiring events planned to find cyber talent in a hugely competitive field, including two this fall in Maryland. The nation’s newest unified combatant command is streamlining and expediting its recruitment and hiring processes.

U.S. Cyber Command hiring managers now have the discretion to hire people directly and make on-the-spot job offers through agile recruitment sourcing outside the traditional confines of the USAJobs platform, Cybercom officials said in a news release.

Cyber Command teamed up with the Air Force Personnel Center for the command’s first public hiring event May 8 in Silver Spring, which featured on-site resume reviews and interviews, with multiple qualified individuals receiving job offers. More than 400 people attended the event, with 500 more candidates registering online, officials said. Cybercom hiring managers screened more than 300 resumes, resulting in same-day interviews for 70 people and 18 on-the-spot job offers. Positions hired include those for cyber operations, acquisitions and support.

The command will be recruiting at the San Antonio CyberTexas Job Fair on Aug. 14, at Fort Meade on Sept. 12, and in Baltimore at the Cyber Maryland Job Fair on Oct. 9.“The cyber field is in demand and growing daily,” Air Force Col. Bill Norton, Cybercom’s director of manpower and personnel said.

To register or learn more about hiring events, visit https://www.afciviliancareers.... or email your resume or questions to cyber_recruiting@cybercom.mil.

Authorized in the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2016, the CES granted the secretary of defense the authority to establish Title 10 civilian cyber workforce to carry out the responsibilities of Cybercom and other organizations within the Defense Department.

This initiative includes Cybercom, Joint Force Headquarters Department of Defense Information Network, the DoD chief information officer for cybersecurity, the Defense Information Systems Agency and the service cyber components. The Cyber Excepted Service maintains Title 5 provisions such as appeal rights, attained career status, protections, federal benefits, retirement and performance management, officials said.

Cybercom now brings on new hires under the excepted service, or GG, grades, instead of the competitive service, or GS grades. The CES places high value on experience, officials explained, which transcends the typical time-based approach in the competitive service. Promotions in the CES are qualification based with no time-in-grade requirements required for advancement, they added.