Therefore, while police and military organizations provide fertile recruitment areas, job announcements must make explicitly clear than no level of previous professional experience in either field necessarily qualifies any applicant for the position. Naturally, candidates for management of this department must be carefully selected to avoid individuals with any biases in that regard in either direction (Dalton, 2003). Access Control Security Specialists

Candidates for access control security responsibilities may also benefit from previous police or military experience but recruitment initiatives should be broad enough so as not to exclude potentially qualified candidates with extensive experience in other fields that provide training in the operation of high-tech access control equipment (

). In that regard, recruitment initiatives should include senior airport security screeners and individuals working in varied organizations where access control via high-tech systems is a primary responsibility. In all cases, recruitment initiatives must make explicitly clear than hiring decisions are made through a comprehensive review of all elements of application materials and never based on specific previous experience or expertise.

IT Specialists and IT Security Specialists

This may be the trickiest area of recruitment because effective corporate security in modern organizations requires dedicated IT professionals who are generalists, dedicated IT professionals who are security specialists, and IT managers who function effectively as liaisons between those two groups as well as between the IT department and the...

Perhaps the most important component of this team are the candidates for management positions because they must be sufficiently experienced and educated in the technical side of IT management and equally qualified and oriented toward security management functions as applied to IT systems (Haddow, Bullock, & Coppola, 2008; Ortmeier, 2008).
Information Investigation Specialists

Information Investigation Specialists are security specialists who work mainly in the Human Resources capacity in connection with verifying information furnished by all job applicants (Dalton, 2003; Ortmeier, 2008; Sheffi, 2005). They also conduct extensive criminal and other relevant background checks designed to identify prospective employees who represent possible risks to the organization (Dalton, 2003; Ortmeier, 2008; Sheffi, 2005). Ideally, these specialists should be recruited from law enforcement investigative fields as well as from insurance fraud investigations departments and retail and other private commercial fraud departments.

References

Dalton, D.A. (2003). Rethinking Corporate Security in the Post-9/11 Era. Burlington,

MA: Butterworth-Heinemann.

Haddow, G.D., Bullock, J.A., and Coppola, D.P. (2008). Introduction to Emergency

Management. Burlington, MA: Butterworth-Heinemann.

Ortmeier, P.J. (2008). Security Management: An Introduction. Uppers Saddle River, NJ:

Pearson.

Sheffi, Y. (2005). The Resilient Enterprise: Overcoming Vulnerability for Competitive

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