Hands-On Hiring
RCCE students will learn cybersecurity workforce planning, recruitment, interviewing, and retention strategies for building high-performing security teams. RCCE students will learn to define cybersecurity job roles using frameworks like NICE/NIST, write effective job descriptions, evaluate candidate technical and soft skills, design practical interview assessments, navigate security clearance requirements, develop onboarding programs for new security hires, build career development paths that retain talent, manage diverse and distributed security teams, and address the cybersecurity talent shortage through alternative hiring pipelines. This practice-intensive course emphasizes applied skills through lab exercises, real-world scenarios, and production-realistic workflows. Starting from foundational concepts, RCCE students will learn by doing, building muscle memory and practical confidence through repeated hands-on engagement. Students complete exercises that mirror actual workplace tasks, ensuring skills transfer directly to their professional roles.
- Security Engineers building defensive controls
- Security Analysts and Blue Team members
- Systems Administrators with security responsibilities
- GRC and Risk Professionals supporting controls
- Professionals implementing Hands-On Hiring
- Execute hands-on tasks for hands-on hiring
- Execute hands-on tasks for advanced cyber defense mastery
- Explain Executive Overview fundamentals
- Execute hands-on tasks for the talent crisis
- Execute hands-on tasks for organizational risk — covering Understaffed teams miss critical alerts.
- Execute hands-on tasks for how to use nice for hiring — covering open positions to NICE Work Roles for standardized definitions.
- Execute hands-on tasks for defining cybersecurity job roles
- Execute hands-on tasks for core focus
- Execute hands-on tasks for typical level
- Execute hands-on tasks for incident responder
- Execute hands-on tasks for writing effective cybersecurity job descriptions
- Execute hands-on tasks for effective job descriptions
| Module 01 | Hands-On Hiring |
| Module 02 | Advanced Cyber Defense Mastery |
| Module 03 | Executive Overview |
| Module 04 | The Talent Crisis |
| Module 05 | Organizational Risk |
| Module 06 | How to Use NICE for Hiring |
| Module 07 | Defining Cybersecurity Job Roles |
| Module 08 | Core Focus |
| Module 09 | Typical Level |
| Module 10 | Incident Responder |
| Module 11 | Writing Effective Cybersecurity Job Descriptions |
| Module 12 | Effective Job Descriptions |
| Module 13 | Common JD Mistakes |
| Module 14 | Recruitment Strategies & Talent Pipelines |
All hands-on labs run on Rocheston Rose X OS. Students practice hands-on hiring by implementing the controls discussed in class, with a focus on real-world deployment, monitoring, and validation.
- Lab 1: Execute hands-on tasks for hands-on hiring
- Lab 2: Execute hands-on tasks for advanced cyber defense mastery
- Lab 3: Explain Executive Overview fundamentals
- Lab 4: Execute hands-on tasks for the talent crisis
- Lab 5: Execute hands-on tasks for organizational risk
Upon successful completion of this course, students will receive an official RCCE Course Completion Certificate for Hands-On Hiring, verifiable through the Rocheston certification portal.
- Full access to all course materials and slide decks
- Hands-on lab access on Rocheston Rose X OS environment
- Access to Rocheston CyberNotes
- Access to Rocheston Zelfire — EDR/XDR SIEM platform
- Access to Rocheston Raven — online cyber range exercise platform
- Access to Rocheston Vulnerability Vines AI