Cyber talent marketplace

The cyber talent marketplace

Where employers find cybersecurity candidates whose skills have been verified — and matched on what they can actually do.

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The short answer

What is the cyber talent marketplace?

The cyber talent marketplace is a two-sided market for cybersecurity talent. Candidates build verified skills profiles on one side; employers describe the capability a role needs on the other; and HiringIQ matches the two on what people can demonstrably do. The defining feature is that the supply side is verified before you ever see it.

That is what separates it from a CV database or a job board. Both of those give you access to people who applied. A verified marketplace gives you access to people whose capability has already been assessed against a consistent standard.

How it differs from a job board

A job board gives you applicants

Volume, self-described, in whatever order the platform decides — and the screening burden lands entirely on you.
A verified marketplace gives you candidates

People whose skills have been verified, matched to your role on capability, with the evidence attached.

The flywheel

How matching works

Verified supply in, capability matching across, matched candidates out.

Step 01

Verified supply

Candidates build Skills Wallets holding evidence of what they can do.

Step 02

Skills ontology

A shared model describes capability consistently on both sides.

Step 03

Decision graph

Roles and candidates are reasoned across, not keyword-searched.

Step 04

Matched candidates

You receive people who fit the capability, with the evidence attached.

Skills-verified candidates are the point. A marketplace without verification is a directory — the verification is what makes the match worth trusting.

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The users

Who uses the marketplace

Employers

Security teams hiring directly into their own organisation.
MSSPs

Providers staffing security services for multiple clients.
Staffing firms

Organisations placing cyber talent who need better signal earlier.

Marketplace, services and platform

Three ways into the same skills model. The platform is self-serve; the services team runs hiring for you; the marketplace is the verified pool both of them draw on. Most organisations start with one and add the others.

A two-sided market where candidates hold verified skills profiles and employers are matched to them on capability rather than on keyword-searched CVs.

Through skills certification — each skill is assessed against a consistent standard rather than self-reported, and the evidence travels with the candidate.

A shared skills ontology describes what your role needs and what candidates hold, and the decision graph reasons across both to produce a shortlist.

Employers hiring security roles directly, MSSPs staffing services for clients, and staffing firms placing cyber talent.

A job board gives you everyone who applied and leaves the screening to you. The marketplace gives you candidates whose capability has already been verified and matched to your role.

Frequently asked questions

The marketplace,
explained

What it is, how the pool is verified, and why matching beats searching.

Next step

See who the marketplace matches to your role

Bring a live vacancy to a demo and see the candidates capability matching returns — with the evidence attached.

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The cyber talent marketplace