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IQ Score  \nThe focus on cybersecurity in nearly every industry increases every year. This has led to an excess of available positions–many of which are still going unfilled. The lack of properly experienced candidates has only made the issue of hiring more complicated.  \nThat’s why Haystack Solutions developed CyberGEN. IQ: the world’s only cyber aptitude and talent assessment. The test provides 97% accuracy in predicting job performance, mapping talent to job roles, and making the right hiring decisions.  \nIn short: CyberGEN.IQ is a new way to quickly and reliably find the right hire.  \nA Cyber Aptitude and Talent Assessment  \nCyberGEN.IQ is a cybersecurity aptitude test created to help identify the specific cyber talent shortages professions are facing. We already mentioned the accuracy. What makes it unique in the world of aptitude tests?  \nTypically, other tests assess candidates’ preexisting cybersecurity knowledge and skills and stop there. This narrow scope lends itself to narrow insight. These types of assessments are only useful to assess the traditional candidate pool. This is something many industry experts looking to address cybersecurity’shiring problems advise against. A big reason is this candidate pool is simply not up to the task of filling the right positions.  \nCyberGEN.IQ assesses a candidate’s potential tobe successful in cybersecurity, but it doesn’t stop there. The test results also help indicate wherein cybersecurity a candidate would thrive. The results can be used regardless of current cybersecurity knowledge.  \nThis has three distinct advantages:  \n● It’s very helpful when looking at existing employees to up or reskill  \n● Widens the pool by looking at candidates with nontraditional backgrounds (no 4-year degree in cybersecurity or IT)  \n● Assists in the comparison of a mix of applicants (applicants with traditional background and applicants with non traditional background)  \nDeveloped for rigorous application in the Department of Defense, the test has been administered more than 1500 times. After all that, the accuracy rate is still holding at 97% .  \nThe Test  \nThe test consists of 15 assessments. Each are meant to measure a candidate’s capability in one of the four cognitive domains:  \n● Offensive  \n● Defensive  \n● Design and development  \n● Analysis and forensics  \nThe combination of these 4 domains help hiring managers analyze candidates’ capabilities and place the right people in the job. Once the selected pool of applicants completes the test, the hiring manager (or whoever the firm/organization chooses) will receive the scores in the form of an Excel sheet. This is when the critical analysis process begins.  \nUnderstanding the CyberGEN.IQ Score | 2  \nAnalyzing the Score  \nApplicants’ scores for each cognitive domain will be listed and shown as a number between 0-100 indicating how strong they are in that domain. Higher numbers indicate a high degree of capability.  \nBased on the score CyberGEN.IQ indicates the following:  \n● 0-25 = applicant does not have a strong aptitude in this domain  \n● 26-35 = applicant has basic aptitude  \n● 36-50 = applicant has sufficient aptitude in this domain  \n● 51-66 = applicant has strong aptitude in this domain  \n● 67+ = exceptional aptitude in this domain  \nGenerally speaking, you should choose applicants who score high in the domain that best fits the job you’re trying to fill.  \nExample: You’retrying to hire someone to bean incident handler, which requires real-time and responding skills. You should hire or approve candidates who score high in the appropriate categories.  \nThere are different ways to analyze participants’scores. The way companies choose to analyze scores will depend on various factors, such as:  \n● Size of the applicant pool  \n● Importance of the position  \n● Degree of urgency there is to fill the position  \nRelative/Percentile  \nAnother way to analyze applicants’ scores is through relative scoring. This is where","cbCaihKC11jqeiRY","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaihKC11jqeiRY","pdf",1512397,"English","# Understanding the CyberGEN.IQ Score\n## Analyzing the Score\n## Relative/Percentile\n## High Scorers\n## Is it Relative or Absolute?\n## Absolute/Threshold","[{\"question\":\"What does the CyberGEN.IQ test measure and how are results delivered to hiring teams?\",\"answer\":\"The test evaluates candidate capability across four cognitive domains: offensive, defensive, design and development, and analysis/forensics. 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